Dogpile
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| Dogpile | |
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 Dogpile's homepage |
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| URL | http://www.dogpile.com |
| 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 |
| 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. Dogpile is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc.
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).
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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 singled out in a number of publications for mixing a high percentage of paid listings in with the search results returned by the various search engines.[2]
A "sponsored by" note under a link notifies users that that particular search result has been paid for.
