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Dogpile is a "metasearch" engine that generates search results from other search engines. A metasearch engine finds results to queries by accessing other search engines and displaying results according to their source or by using other criteria. Dogpile was launched in 1996 and its name is derived from the act in Rugby where players come together and pile on each other. It is so named to give the image of bringing together the various search engines from which it compiles its results.  Dogpile users can use it to search for results in the following categories: web, images, video, news, Yellow Pages, and White Pages. Dogpile obtains its results from the following search engines and resources: Google Yahoo! Bing Ask.com Kosmix: an engine that arranges the Internet by topic pages so that users can explore the web by topic Fandango: an online movie ticket service Dogpile's technology analyzes the results from the above sites and removes duplicate results...

Some web browsers have a feature that allows users to search directly from the URL address bar where you normally enter web addresses. Such browsers include  Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google  Chrome. Some of these browsers can only produce results from a particular search engine when used in this manner. For example, Firefox only produces Google results and Internet Explorer produces results from the default search engine (usually Bing). Google Chrome on the other hand, allows you to search any website or use any search engine in the above manner. When Chrome is first installed, it comes with at least three search engines: Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search. Any of them can be used directly from the address bar and Google is set as the default. As you use Chrome to visit other search engines or websites and perform searches on them, it automatically captures their search engines to your local system. Consequently, you can use any of those new search engines right...