Dogpile, meta-search includes sponsored results.

Dogpile is a meta-search engine that has been in existence since 1996 and has been a good one at that. It gets results from the major search engines, Google, Yahoo & AskJeeves. I wonder if they will include MSN when they introduce the new search engine algorithm? They also return results of sponsored listings which I believe is Overture and a couple of minor offerings.

When doing a search for "laptop computers" in Dogpile, I get a preponderance of sponsored search results. Which is as it should be. Most likely, people who want to buy a laptop computer might search this way. When typing the search term "laptop computer help", I get a spectrum of results which includes mostly natural web search results and less of the sponsored results. There is a lot of competition for the term "laptop computers" and even meta-search engine reflect this.

Dogpile returns some good results and is a useful tool that I use on occasion. There are some things I find there, that I haven't found anywhere else. If you're doing a news search on Dogpile, I found it to be almost worthless. It's better to stick with Google News or Yahoo News for something like that.

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