Thumbs down for dogpile. (dogpile.com)

Member Name: Magik

Product:	dogpile.com
Date:	07/10/08 (26 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Its won the award for 2006 and 2007 for best Residential Online Search Engine

Disadvantages: Its a metasearch engine.

Dogpile.com was developed in 1996, another search engine. It is a metasearch engine which basically is a search engine that looks through all the other search engines, not the actual internet. It enable the user to enter search criteria once and access several search engines simultaneously. However, in my eyes, this is bad. You don't get many hits back at all because it isn't searching the whole of the world wide web, just databases from other search engines.

Try this: If you type in a word or phrase in google, see how many hits you get. Now type in the expact same word or phrase in dogpile, you will get less hits.

Dogpile is It a registered trademark of InfoSpace, a dot com pioneer, provides metasearch and private-label Internet search services. It has earnt the 2006 and 2007 J.D. Power and Associates award for best Residential Online Search Engine, so they must be doing something right! However, it has been critisised for mixing a high percentage of paid listings- where thr "sponsored link" under a link indicates the space has been paid for; in with the search results returned by the various search engines.

I do not think thi is a good search engine at all as it doesn't collect all the information I would like, but if you were looking for information from other search engines, then this is for you.

Summary: Uless you don't want to search the internet, don't try it.