About Dogpile

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 – Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, and Ask – 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.

Our time is important to us too. So, we had an idea to bring together the Web's best search engines in one place and deliver the most comprehensive and relevant results, and metasearch was born. The solution is an efficient, single-search-box engine that makes things easier for all of us. Especially when you learn that our special technology removes duplicates and analyzes the results to ensure the best results are always on top of the pile.

About Dogpile Search & Rescue

In November of 2008, InfoSpace launched the Search & Rescue program on Dogpile to raise money for animal rescue. By the year's end InfoSpace raised $200,000 through the program.

In 2009, InfoSpace continued the Search & Rescue program to help generate donations for pets in need and has now expanded the program to become Do Great Good, a search engine devoted entirely to supporting charities of all kinds while searching the Web. Through Do Great Good and the Search & Rescue program, InfoSpace has already raised over $200,000 for donations in 2009! Search the Web on www.DoGreatGood.com to continue supporting charities while you search the Web.

Oh, and the name Dogpile?

It's traditional in Rugby for players to come together and pile on one another. This is exactly what Dogpile metasearch technology does – it brings together the best results from the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, and Ask.com, as well as providing authoritative content from Kosmix and Fandango to provide users with a richer search experience.

From there, it was only natural that we find a mascot for the Dogpile team. We adopted Arfie to chase down the most relevant results for searchers. Arfie is a virtual know-it-all and is always eager to please.

Pretty compelling story, huh? We saved the best for last. Dogpile was named top consumer search engine by J.D. Power & Associates in 2006 and 2007. We're not ones to brag, but our rankings were pretty high – it’s nice to be recognized for work you enjoy and produce so tirelessly.