Search Engines > Search Engines: Meta Search Engines
Oct. 18, 2007 at 3:29pm by Greg Sterling
With Dogpile Beating Google In Satisfaction, Owner InfoSpace Needs To Reinvent Itself, Be Risky With Metasearch
InfoSpace recently sold both its local and directory assets and its mobile platform business to Idearc/Superpages and Motricity respectively. So what's left? Specifically Dogpile and its cousins Metacrawler, Webcrawler and the domain InfoSpace.com. The company also owns the kid-friendly search site Zoo.com. Amid all this, JD Power & Associates has...
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Jun. 1, 2007 at 9:45am by Greg Sterling
Dogpile: Search Results On Major Engines Diverging
InfoSpace-owned metasearch engine Dogpile, which recently refreshed its homepage and made other, minor changes, published the results of its second "search overlap" study. The first study, released in 2005 and commissioned from the University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State University, found that 84.9 percent of results on search engines were...
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Mar. 30, 2007 at 1:11pm by Chris Sherman
eTools.ch: A "Swiss Army" Meta Search Engine
I'm generally not a big fan of meta search technologies—I prefer to go directly to the search service I feel will likely give me the best response for any given query, rather than sifting through the aggregated results from several engines. But recently, developer Stephan Schmid invited me to kick...
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Mar. 28, 2007 at 12:27pm by Chris Sherman
UpSnap & MuseGlobal Offer Mobile Metasearch
UpSnap, a provider of mobile search and content, has partnered with federated search technology firm MuseGlobal to provide one of the first metasearch engines for mobile devices. From the press release: "Mobile metasearch technology from MuseGlobal searches multiple mobile sites simultaneously. For example, if you are looking for a particular...
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Jan. 30, 2007 at 6:50am by Phil Bradley
CrossEngine: Fast & Easy Way To Search Several Search Engines
CrossEngine is the new (and in my opinion better) name for the Mr Sapo meta search engine. It is similar in functionality to TurboScout and Trovando in that it has a search box at the top of the screen with a list of search engines that you can use below...
