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For a long time now there has been a search engine that has been totally forgotten about, that search engine is Dogpile. Dogpile is a meta-search engine that is currently owned by Infospace. I was browsing the site this afternoon and suddenly noticed that there werent any search ads in the results. Im so used to seeing search ads on Yahoo, Google, etc, but nothing on Dogpile. Why is this? Why would they have a search engine that is obviously not getting huge amounts of traffic, but is still getting something, so why not at the very least create a partnership with Google and get some money for those search ads?

This is probably not a good example, but im really sick of seeing Silicon Valley companies who get funding or whatever, but havent actually developed a real business model. Prime example lately was Sonific. Sonific was a great idea, but they never really had an affective business model that could go with their high class product. That is the main reason why I like seeing startups like Techmeme do so well, because they are bootstrapped with no money at all, but they have a real aim and a business model that can pull it all together.

Update: There was a misprint which stated that Dogpile was owned by IAC, which its not. Dogpile is owned by Infospace.

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It has been reported by Valleywag in December and now again by Silicon Alley, that Digg are working on a white label version of their product for the IAC. “I’ve seen it, and it looks great,” silicon alley correspondent writes. We inquired with Ask, and got a “no comment at this time”, but we got something slightly more encouraging from Digg’s Jay Adelson: “We have no comment on our relationship with Ask, but will keep you updated!”

If I had a pound for every time I hear “Digg Killer”, then I would def. be rich and owning my own island in the caribbean. However, since the sort of failure of Netscape (now Propeller), there has really been no service to challenge Digg. Now this white label will be on the scene, i dont think it will be a Digg killer mainly because it is getting written by Digg. Thus, how can it really challenge, or are IAC just trying to gain some extra pageviews and fill out their portfolio before they spin off Ask.com into an IPO?? Only time will tell, but im looking forward to seeing this new service soon.