RE: Dogpile.com
Does it sell information to Google? Who funds them?
Blucora sold to Openmail.
AFAIK it’s not selling to Google and I think that’s because it’s so small. If it grows, then it gets bought up and controlled
Dogpile is a metasearch engine for information on the World Wide Web that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Yandex, Bing, and other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers such as Yahoo!.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogpile
A question to consider is whether there is an open source search engine because such would be kept out of the hands of Google and others.