Dogpile.com - Best Search Engines Piled Into One

Two heads think better than one, right? So, applying this principle, shouldn’t 6 search engines work better than one? This is what the people behind Dogpile though, and it seems they were right. Since 1996, Dogpile is providing their users a free metasearch engine, finding more relevant results than any of the other search engines in which Dogpile runs his own search. These engines are: Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask, About, MIVA, and more. So, you have the experience and reliability of all the major and traditional search engines piled into one. If you are not yet convinced about the advantages of Dogpile, they have a whole section on their site, fully explaining how they work, what tools to use, and some tips to make your search results even more accurate and relevant. Dogpile has one more excellent feature: their toolbar. This very useful feature offers many advantages like, making any search directly from there, block popups, a ticker and a cursor search, among others.

“If you had a choice between a single-person search party, or a search team of half-a-dozen, which would you choose? Yep, us too. Why not put six search engines to work on something in the same time it takes to use one? This is what we call metasearch. Dogpile puts the power all the leading search engines together in one search box to deliver the best combined results. The process is more efficient and yields more relevant results. Aren't all search engines pretty much the same? Funny, we thought that too, but they aren't. In fact, different search engines often return different search results for the same query. Based on everything from how information is arranged on a web page, to what each search engine pinpoints as most relevant, search results can vary widely across each search provider.”

The service provided by Dogpile is very useful for those whose necessities aren’t completely filled out by the traditional search engines. Using this earch engine is quick, there is no registration or sign up needed, and most important of all, it’s completely free.

Why will users abandon their traditional search engines for one which is nothing more than a cocktail of others? Isn’t it a big risk to rely exclusively on the other search engines, rather than creating a parallel engine?