http://federatedsearchblog.com/2007/12/09/dogpile-comes-out-at-the-top-of-the-pile/ Covers topics in the federated search field. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:28:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://federatedsearchblog.com/2007/12/09/dogpile-comes-out-at-the-top-of-the-pile/#comment-1142 Gwen Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:32:40 +0000 http://federatedsearchblog.com/2007/12/09/dogpile-comes-out-at-the-top-of-the-pile/#comment-1142 I've just discovered this blog - it's very well designed; and this post about customer satisfaction with Dogpile which I had missed. I can say that "information professionals" look askance at metasearchers like Dogpile and sibling Metacrawler (and others) because of sponsored results and difficulty in using syntax (not to mention distrust). But the "untrained" searcher may prefer these metasearchers because they return fewer results and relevance is higher since the selection is from the top results of the top 4 engines. I know a couple of people who use Metacrawler rather than Google for those reasons. I’ve just discovered this blog - it’s very well designed; and this post about customer satisfaction with Dogpile which I had missed. I can say that “information professionals” look askance at metasearchers like Dogpile and sibling Metacrawler (and others) because of sponsored results and difficulty in using syntax (not to mention distrust). But the “untrained” searcher may prefer these metasearchers because they return fewer results and relevance is higher since the selection is from the top results of the top 4 engines. I know a couple of people who use Metacrawler rather than Google for those reasons.

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