Dogpile

Dogpile.com

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	3,868 (November 2011[update])[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.

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.

See also

• InfoSpace
• Metasearch engine
• MetaCrawler
• WebCrawler
• List of search engines

References

1. ^ "Dogpile.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dogpile.com. Retrieved 2011-11-02. 
2. ^ "Residential Online Service Customer Satisfaction Study | J.D. Power and Associates". Jdpower.com. 2006-10-11. http://www.jdpower.com/corporate/news/releases/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2006219. Retrieved 2009-10-08. 
3. ^ "2007 Residential Online Service Customer Satisfaction Study | J.D. Power and Associates". Jdpower.com. 2007-10-17. http://www.jdpower.com/corporate/news/releases/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2007242. Retrieved 2009-10-08. 
4. ^ "Dogpile.com Lends A Paw to ASPCA with $1 Million Fundraising Campaign | With Video". Prnewswire.com. 2008-11-12. http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/infospace/35692/. Retrieved 2009-10-08. 
5. ^ "Dogpile.com Site Info", Alexa, retrieved 8-29-2010
6. ^ "Dogpile.com-- Quantcast Audience Profile", Quantcast, retrieved 8-29-2010
7. ^ "Site Profile for dogpile.com", Compete, retrieved 8-29-2010

External links

• Official website
• JD Power Study on Online Behavior

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