Search Engine and Rank

You might never heard it before, but dogpile was firstly introduced in 1996 and created by Aaron Flin. Dogpile search engine is included in meta search engine type. This type of search engine combine results from other search engine. Mainly, dogpile combine the results from Google, Yahoo, MSN (Bing), Ask , About, and more.

Dogpile also earned as the best residential online search engine service in two years in a row (2006 and 2007) in J.D. Power and Associates award
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Altavista might not be familiar to be used as primary search engine, as a matter of fact some of us might heard about it the first time in here. But there are some group of people using altavista as their secondary search engine, they claimed that certain features altavista offers help them out doing some searched.

Before we discussed it more, lets have a look at its short history. Altavista is owned by Yahoo Groups in 1996-1998, but then sold to Compaq, altavista were design as web portal back then, with great expectation it could reach the same popularity as Yahoo does.
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Ask Jeeves is its former name, but lately Garrett Gruener and David Warthen the founder of Ask Jeeves, simplify the name into ask to make it easier to remember.

Before we discussed about its usage, lets have a look at short history of ask. The “Jeeves” behind ask is coming from the name of the “gentleman’s personal gentleman”, or valet, fetching answers to any question asked. The character was based on Jeeves, Bertie Wooster’s fictional valet from the works of P. G. Wodehouse.
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If you’re familiar with MSN search engine, that lately also being called as live (windows live) search engine, at the year 2009 being replaced into Bing by Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft. The first release was launch in June 1, 2009.

So what are the differences between them all, tell you the truth some users like to use Bing to search for some images, its likely Bing have more relevant results better then other search engine.
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Although lycos search engine is currently not as popular as it was in the 90′s, but it still consider as one of the top 50 search engine in the world. Lycos was focusing on search software when it was first release, and its aiming enterprise client.

This project that found by Michael Loren Mauldin, lately change its orientation into advertising web portal, which follow with its success in the year of 1999, and became one of the most visited website in the world.
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