Dogpile

Dogpile
Dogpile.com
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Dogpile's homepage (April 2008)
URL dogpile.com
Slogan All the best search engines piled into one
Type of site Metasearch engine
Available language(s) English
Owner InfoSpace, Inc.
Created by Aaron Flin
Alexa rank decrease 3,868 (November 2011)[1]
Current status Active

Dogpile is a metasearch engine that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask.com, About.com and several other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers. It is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc.

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History

Dogpile began operation in November 1996. The site was created and developed by Aaron Flin and later sold to Go2net (which was in turn acquired by Infospace).

The Dogpile search engine earned the J.D. Power and Associates award for best Residential Online Search Engine Service in both 2006[2] and 2007.[3]

Dogpile started a campaign in 2008 to use proceeds from site traffic to raise US$1 million for animals in need.[4]

In July 2010, Dogpile was ranked the 770th most popular website in the U.S., and 2548th most popular in the world by Alexa. Quantcast estimated 2.0 million unique U.S. visitors a month, and Compete estimated 1,953,280.[5][6][7]

Metasearch

Dogpile is a metasearch site—it searches multiple engines, filters for duplicates and then presents the results to the user. Dogpile uses multiple popular search engines, as well as sponsored links.

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