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Encyclopedia > Dogpile
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Introduction:

Dogpile is a metasearch engine that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live Search (formerly MSN Search), Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and several other popular search engines, including from audio and video content providers. Dogpile is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc. A meta-search engine is a search engine that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and returns the results from each one. ... Google, Inc. ... Yahoo! Inc. ... Windows Live Search is the name of Microsofts next-generation web search engine, designed to compete with the industry leaders Google and Yahoo!. It is currently in beta, and is expected to replace MSN Search as Microsofts main search engine towards the end of 2006. ... Ask. ... About. ... miva may refer to: Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association - NCAA Mens Volleyball MivaScript Category: ... Looksmarts original site LookSmart owns an internet directory, Wisenut search engine, experimental Grub distributed web-crawling project, FindArticles premium content search and NetNanny desktop parental controls software. ... Google search is the worlds most popular search engine. ... Current Chairman & CEO Jim Voelker InfoSpace is a mobile entertainment provider, a private label search engine and an online directory. ...


Metasearch:

Metasearch is used by dogpile to search multiple engines, which gives the user the best search results for each search the user executes. All the searches are filtered for duplicates and copies, and are then shown to the user. Dogpile uses multiple popular search engines, which includes Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN, Ask.com, About, MIVA, LookSmart and more.


This search system covers more of the World Wide Web and gives the user the most popular and relevant results. An independent search engine expert claimed that "metasearch can search 50% more of the Web than any single search engine.


Web Resources

Current Chairman & CEO Jim Voelker InfoSpace is a mobile entertainment provider, a private label search engine and an online directory. ... MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that searches results from About, Ask Jeeves, Google, LookSmart, MSN, MIVA, Yahoo! and other popular search engines. ... See WebCrawler for the specific search engine of that name. ... The following is a list of search engines for which Wikipedia has articles. ...

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  Results from FactBites:
 
Dogpile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (178 words)
This article is about a metasearch engine, dogpile is also the name of a game where everyone piles on top of each other.
Dogpile began operations in November of 1996 and became part of the Go2net Network in 1999 which in turn was acquired by InfoSpace, Inc. (InfoSpace also owns Metacrawler, Webcrawler and Excite).
Dogpile's mascot is a dalmatian, "Arfie", that fetches search results in news, web, images, and music.
Dogpile - definition of Dogpile in Encyclopedia (76 words)
Dogpile is a metasearch engine that "fetches" results from About, Ask Jeeves, FindWhat, LookSmart, Google, Teoma, Yahoo!
Dogpile began operating in January of 1996 and became part of the InfoSpace Network (which also owns Metacrawler, Webcrawler and Excite) in 2000.
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