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Dogpile was one of the web’s most unusual early search engines. Instead of building its own massive index, it searched multiple engines at once and combined their results into a single page.
In this video, we explore how Dogpile became popular during the early search wars, why metasearch once seemed like a brilliant idea, and how the rise of Google changed everything. From its clever approach to its gradual decline in relevance, this is the story of the search engine that searched other search engines.
In this video, we explore how Dogpile became popular during the early search wars, why metasearch once seemed like a brilliant idea, and how the rise of Google changed everything. From its clever approach to its gradual decline in relevance, this is the story of the search engine that searched other search engines.
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