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Both Dogpile, a well-established metasearch engine and Bartleby.com, a large reference search engine, began on the Internet during its early days - 1996 and 1994 respectively. Both have done an excellent job of continually improving and expanding their services.
If you haven't visited Dogpile in a while, you'll notice a completely changed design. In 1999, it was taken over by Go2Net, who has redesigned it and made some useful additions, while (to its credit) preserving the engine's basic features. However . . . there is one important exception. There is now no way to see which engines Dogpile searches before you get your search results unless you go to the Help page (which is out- of-date). Dogpile's former design listed the engines that were going to be accessed for each type of search (e.g., web, FTP, news, etc.) Web Search: For its web search Dogpile accesses 12 engines - Google, AltaVista, LookSmart, GoTo.com, Dogpile Web Catalog, Dogpile Open Directory, FindWhat.com, Direct Hit, InfoSeek, Real Names, Lycos, and Yahoo! Although this is not a comprehensive selection of search engines, it is a good mix. Specialized Metasearches: You can do six specialized metasearches on Dogpile - News, Business News, Usenet (Deja News, Alta Vista's Usenet Search, and Deja News' old database), FTP (only FTP Fastsearch at present), Audio/MP3. (GigaBeat, AstraWeb, AudioGalaxy and MP3Board) and Auctions (30 auctions). In addition, Dogpile offers searches of individual specialized engines covering several subjects (e.g., Weather, Yellow Pages, Stock Quotes). Geographic Search: Dogpile's Geographic Search retrieves results from Internet sites within 20 miles of your preferred city. The web search in the Geographic search mode is not a metasearch, so if you're doing a concept search (e.g. "dog laws" "New York City"), you're better off using the metasearch engine. You can choose a default city anywhere in the United States, and receive regional web search results, weather, yellow pages, white pages, maps and employment information without having to continually type the city in the search box. If you decide to change the city you're focusing on, change your default or type in the new city and state, or the zip code immediately following your query. Separate the terms with commas (e.g., restaurants, new york, ny). Search Tips: You can use quotation marks to enclose a phrase. Search Results: Search results in Dogpile are given in order of the search engine they were returned from. Results appear in the format of each engine. After receiving the results from three search engines, you're given the choice of receiving results from the next three.
The copyright of the article Search Engine Reviews: Dogpile and Bartleby.com in Search Engines is owned by Paula Dragutsky. Permission to republish Search Engine Reviews: Dogpile and Bartleby.com in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
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