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 Review of dogpile.com

by Derrick Ross

Dogpile.com, in my opinion is one of the best metacrawlers around. It has all the best search engines piled into one searchbox to deliver the best combined results. It uses the search engines Google, Yahoo!Search, LiveSearch, Ask.com, About, MIVA, LookSmart, and more. Dogpile was just named top consumer search engine by J.D. Power and Associates for 2007. Dogpile is easy to use, all you do is type in your search and click fetch, then Arfie(dogpile.com's mascot) will retrieve your results for you.

Database

• Web
•  Images
•  Audio
• Video
• News
• Yellow Pages
• White Pages

Advanced Search Options

• All of these words
• Any of these words
• The exact phrase
• None of these phrases
• Language
• Include/exclude domain

   

   

  Preferences

   

   

  • Search filter
  • Bold search terms
  • Recent searches
  • Results display
  • Open search results links in new window

   

   

  Weaknesses

   

   

  • Mixes in paid listings with search results
  • Sometimes a bit slow

   

   

   

   

  I would recommend dogpile.com, to anybody that wants to try something new in searching the internet.