The search engine Dogpile (www.dogpile.com) announced on September 15 that it has changed its name to WebFetch (www.webfetch.com) in the UK and Europe. In the US, no matter what the image of a dog’s pile conjures up in people’s heads, the DogPile name will stick to the meta search engine and search toolbar.
Dogpile relies on other tools for most of its functionality. For normal searches it uses Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, Overture and Teoma. Web directories include About, LookSmart and Open Directory. The list of resources continues with paid inclusion sites like Overture, Sprinks and FindWhat and vertical search engines like Yahoo, Ditto, ABC News, PriceGrabber and Guaranteed Search Inclusion.
