Dogpile updates search site
16 May 2005
Metasearch engine Dogpile has unveiled a number of updates to its website.
Users can now compare results across the various search engines its algorithm crawls side-by-side and utilise a new "Missing Pieces" tool, a Flash application that provides a graphical representation of how the top 10 search results of Yahoo!, Google, and Ask Jeeves differ.
Dogpile, owned by web giant Infospace, gathers results from a combination of top search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and Ask Jeeves.
Dogpile integrates its sponsored pay-per-click links into its searches, marking them with a "sponsored by" tag.
To boost the release of its updated site, Dogpile also launched a joint study from the University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State University, which suggested that the top search engines return vastly different results for the same search terms.
The study found an overlap of just three per cent between the results of searches performed on Yahoo!, Google, and Ask Jeeves.
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