[June 03, 2004] Dogpile Search Engine Does It Again; Toolbar Wins PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award BELLEVUE, Wash. --(Business Wire)-- June 3, 2004 -- Site also launches upgraded toolbar with enhanced functionality for viewing syndicated RSS and ATOM content Dogpile(R) (www.dogpile.com), the metasearch engine that makes it easy to search more of the Web, today announced that the Dogpile Toolbar received a PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award in the June 8, 2004 issue, the third major industry award bestowed on Dogpile this year. The Dogpile Toolbar is a compact, yet powerful, application that resides within a user's Web browser and provides access to a variety of useful features from anywhere on the Internet. PC Magazine editors praised Dogpile's metasearch functionality, which simultaneously searches leading engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Ask Jeeves, and returns the best results from each. The magazine was further impressed by the Toolbar's live content ticker, which scrolls any RSS or Atom content feed right in the user's Web browser. Reviewers also noted the Toolbar's wide array of additional features, including yellow and white pages, pop-up blocker, keyword highlighter and more. Dogpile also today announced the launch of an enhanced version of its award-winning toolbar, which includes a new feature that makes accessing syndicated XML content easier than ever. In March, Dogpile upgraded its toolbar with features allowing users to quickly add RSS or Atom feeds to the toolbar's content ticker. Now, Dogpile makes it easier than ever for users to monitor timely information that is important to them with a new ticker option that allows for sequential viewing of all feeds within a user's customized list. "We're delighted to be recognized for our efforts to understand the needs of our users and develop new technologies and features that effectively address them," said Leslie Grandy, vice president of product management, Search and Directory, at InfoSpace, Inc. "The Dogpile Toolbar supports the fundamental mission of our metasearch products: deliver more of the Web to users while streamlining access to the information that is most relevant to them." The PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award is the latest in a string of industry awards bestowed on Dogpile this year. In the February 2004 issue of PC World, the magazine's "Web Stars: Best of the Web" feature named Dogpile first runner-up in the Search Engines category, behind category winner Google. The Dogpile Toolbar also took top honors in the feature to win a "PC World Best Bet Award." In addition, industry newsletter Search Engine Watch recently named Dogpile "Best Metasearch Engine," in both the popular vote and with the publication's editors. About Dogpile(R) Dogpile (www.dogpile.com), widely recognized as the best Web metasearch engine, makes it easy for users to search more of the Web by drawing together the best results from the most popular search engines. Dogpile is part of the InfoSpace Search & Directory family of Web search and online directory properties. These products bring people, information and businesses together online to help users find the information they need quickly and easily. InfoSpace Search & Directory is a business of InfoSpace, Inc. (Nasdaq:INSP). More information can be found at http://www.infospaceinc.com. This release contains forward-looking statements regarding Dogpile.com. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Factors that could affect InfoSpace's actual results include the performance and scope and timing of market acceptance of the Dogpile application, including the Dogpile Toolbar and Dogpile.com's new features, and the responses of our competitors to our search products. A more detailed description of certain factors that could affect actual results include, but are not limited to, those discussed in InfoSpace's most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, in the section entitled "Factors Affecting Our Operating Results, Business Prospects and Market Price of Stock." Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. InfoSpace undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward- looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]