Dogpile, etc.

How difficult is it?

[SlowMove]

I've seen a lot of sites that claim to be search engines, when most of what they do is mix in results from other search engines with advertising links. I know that dogpile is more sophisticated than most of them, but does anyone have any knowledge about how hard it is to do this kind of thing?

[Bobby_Davro]

You will have to buy a license from each engine that you use the results from, apart from the PPC results that you blend in. So if you want to include Google, Yahoo and Teoma together, you will have to make separate arrangments with each, and probably agree to carry their PPC results as well.

[seo2004wow]

Hi
Slowmove

This is how Dogpile does it, it users textis, but don't look to Thunderstone to help build a meta engine for you, they can't because of a agreement with big meta search engine. You have to lean the code (vortex) yourself.

[thunderstone.com...]

Then buy the product from Thunderstone :)

[papamaku]

Dogpile is owned/run by Infospace, who have their own direct agreements with Google, Yinktomi etc. I'm pretty sure all the meta-search technology is their own too.

[seo2004wow]

Yes I know Infospace owns dogpile, but I know it's based on Thunderstone technology, just ask them :) maybe its changed now but it was before infospace got it's hands on dogpile.

And yes you still have to make agreement with Google, Yinktomi etc.

If you can remember the old dogpile design about 2 years ago, the URL ref /texis/ and I talked with Thunderstone about making a meta search engine and this was the reason they could not help me in making one.

Could have change it, but I don't think so, it was always the same (fast), you see Texis is compiled first time it's run, thats why it SOooooo fast.

[edited by: seo2004wow at 5:35 pm (utc) on June 1, 2004]

[seo2004wow]

Plus I know one of the guys who owned Dogpile long before he sold it to Infospace. :)

Plus infospace still have it in their URL

[dogpile.com...]

Try the a search using texis - looks so much like Dogpile to me :)