Dogpile
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 Dogpile's homepage (April 2008) |
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| URL | http://www.dogpile.com |
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| Slogan | All the best search engines piled into one. |
| Type of site | Metasearch engine |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | InfoSpace, Inc. |
| Created by | Aaron Flin |
| Alexa rank | 1.595 |
| Current status | Active |
Dogpile is a metasearch engine that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and several other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers. It is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc. Dogpile began operation in November of 1996. The Dogpile search engine earned the 2006 and 2007 J.D. Power and Associates award for best Residential Online Search Engine Service.[1] The site was developed in 1996 by Aaron Flin and later sold to Go2net (which was in turn acquired by Infospace).
In 2008, Dogpile started a campaign to raise US$1 million for animals in need.[2]
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[edit] Metasearch
Dogpile is a metasearch site — it searches multiple engines, filters for duplicates and then presents the results to the user. Dogpile uses multiple popular search engines, as well as sponsored links.
[edit] Paid listings criticism
Dogpile is criticized by Search Engine Watch for mixing a high percentage of paid listings in with the search results returned by the various search engines.[3]
