Dogpile

Let's face it, Dogpile.com is an excellent tool for searching the Web.

What is Dogpile? It's all the best search engines piled into one making it easier for users to search more of the Web. Every time you enter a term to search the Web, Dogpile chases down the best results from the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN, Ask Jeeves, About, MIVA, LookSmart and others.

Dogpile.com is part of InfoSpace Search and Directory, which includes a family of Web search and online directory properties. More info at www.infospaceinc.com

InfoSpace also uses its metasearch technology to power a portfolio of branded Web sites and private-label search and directory services:

Dogpile, Switchboard, WebCrawler, InfoSpace, MetaCrawler, and WebFetch.com

Links

Dogpile: Dogpile is a metasearch engine, which is a search engine that queries other search engines and then combines the results. Think of it as several search engines piled into one.
Code for Adding Dogpile Search to Your Site: Dogpile page that provides code to add the search tool to your website.
Search Spy on Dogpile: Ever wonder what the rest of the world is searching for right now? You can see their requests "live." Search Spy scrolls the search terms live as they are entered into Dogpile. Includes two versions; "filtered" (clean) and "unfiltered" (#%$+@* words).
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Bit roles, big business: Seattle Times Quote(click the link for the full article): "DogPile.com has appeared in more than 20 television shows, including the season premiere of CBS' "Ghost Whisperer" and the A&E reality show "Growing Up Gotti."
Wikipedia.org definition of Metasearch Engine: If you want in depth info on metasearch engines, go to wikipedia.org (click this link to go directly to the page on Metaseach Engine).
Google: Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank,
caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages.
Yahoo - All the Web: Search tool owned by Yahoo and using its database, but presenting results differently.
Offers news, picture, video, and audio search.
Ask Jeeves - Ask.com: Uses the Teoma database to offer search for web sites, news, weather reports, pictures, stocks, people or products.
AltaVista: AltaVista provides a comprehensive search.
Lycos: North American portal with email, YellowPages, heavily integrated search engine, personal settings and a directory.