Dogpile adds some new features.

Dogpile, the meta-search engine has added some new features in keeping with what everyone else is trying to do these days also. They are offering Yellow and White page search tabs and keep a history of previous searches. These aren't like A9 or AskJeeves where you need to log in. These are a simple previous search history that will be kept with some form of cookie. They're also showing realtime of what people are searching for right now, called SearchSpy. This is like what IceRocket has done and they seem to be doing the same thing.



The realtime search terms of what people are looking for can be helpful as you get an idea for how people search. It can be enlightening and shocking at the same time. Some people are so obsessed with garbage.

Another nice thing they have are buttons which allows you to search for more than just the web pages, but also audio and video. Dogpile has consistently been one of the top meta-search engines and has a lot of traffic as a trusted source. The only critical comment I have is that they mix paid sponsored results with regular web results. They do designate whether it's sponsored or not, but you still have to wade through pages to get past some of the paid ad results. They should separate these as Info.com does. It makes more sense and people don't see paid ads to be equal in relevancy as natural results. So why would they have them lumped together? Other than that Dogpile is a good search tool, but there are others which are better organized.

There is a little bit of jockeying for position in meta-search and they too follow each other with features as Dogpile has done today. For people looking for better web marketing, a paid ad campaign that might come up high in Dogpile might be worth it as they don't separate paid from natural search. Something to think about.

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