Dogpile - review

An Info Pileup at Dogpile.com

Search engines have drastically revolutionized the Internet in the past few years. The latest entrant into this long league of search engines is dogpile.com. Metasearch has attained a whole new dimension with dogpile.com, the search engine that makes your web search easier than ever before! If you want to get the best search results on the web, then you surely need to get the help of Arfie@dogpile.com! Arfie, the retriever, the smartest, quickest, and most ‘hardworking canine on the web' would sniff and track down the best results from the Internet's top search engines in a matter of microseconds.

Dogpile.com, owned and operated by InfoSpace Search & Directory, the pioneer in mobile entertainment, private-label search and online directory, is a multiple search engine that brings you the most comprehensive and significant results from the Internet's leading search engines such as Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN, Ask.com, About, MIVA, LookSmart and so on. As soon as the search results are retrieved, the cutting-edge metasearch technology of dogpile removes duplicates and makes an in-depth analysis of the results to ensure that the best ones top the list.

Featured in some of the most popular websites, magazines and newspapers like the Wall Street Journal, EContent and SignsOnSandiego.com, dogpile is certainly emerging as the ‘Top Dog' of the search industry. As the website rightly puts it, "it's all the best search engines piled into one!"

The website, a complacent blend of blue and green, hosts a horde of fascinating features including maps, weather, news, Yellow Pages, White Pages and daily horoscope. Visitors can search and select from over the millions of images, audio and video available across the Internet.

At dogpile, you can have fun too! Go awry with laughter at some of the funniest and craziest online jokes. The SearchSpy enables the audience to view filtered family-friendly real time searches as well as unfiltered/unedited web searches. The various options available in the Preferences help to customize your default search settings. Advanced Web Search offers numerous other options to enhance search capabilities.

Yet another attractive feature is the ‘Favorite Fetches' which includes the most popular and widely searched topics, articles, resources, images and videos in Yahoo! Search, Google, Ask.Com, MSN and other sites. Dogpile.com also gives access to other major multiple search engines operated by Infospace such as WebCrawler.com and MetaCrawler.com.

Dogpile.com provides the perfect platform to showcase your products and services to the world. This powerful search engine draws a major chunk of cash from its Search Inclusion program. Dogpile ensures that it incorporates all the relevant information regarding a business/company and its products in the search index of the website and other leading search sites across the internet. The total package, which includes the Dogpile Search Network as well as the Excite Network (optional), is competitively priced. And what more! The subscriber can add over five hundred URLs to the Search Index!

Nayanathara S

Hi-Tech Editorial Division