12. The hardware system of claim 10 , further comprising: (g) means for receiving, at the metasearch engine, another request from the client device executed on the client device for ordering at least one item; (h) means for processing and/or placing, by the metasearch engine, at least one order for the at least one item.
10. A hardware system comprising a metasearch engine for metasearching on a distributed network activated by a request executed on a client device to request the metasearch engine to send a plurality of search queries comprising at least two keyword phrases to a plurality of server devices, each search query of the plurality of search queries comprising a keyword phrase of the at least two keyword phrases, each of the at least two keyword phrases comprising at least one keyword, comprising: (a) means for receiving, at the metasearch engine, the request from the client device for the metasearch engine to send the plurality of search queries comprising the at least two keyword phrases to the plurality of server devices; (b) means for sending, by the metasearch engine, the plurality of search queries comprising the at least two keyword phrases to the plurality of server devices; (c) means for receiving, at the metasearch engine, search results from the plurality of server devices in response to the plurality of search queries comprising the at least two keyword phrases sent to the plurality of server devices; (d) means for incorporating, by the metasearch engine, the received search results into at least two different order books corresponding to the at least two keyword phrases; (e) means for incorporating, by the metasearch engine, the at least two different order books of received search results into a response for communicating to the client device; (f) means for communicating, by the metasearch engine, the response from the metasearch engine to the client device.