Metasearch Tooling for Agents
System1, the company behind Dogpile.com, has rebuilt its backend as a metered search API and MCP server designed for AI agents, offering structured JSON output, result scraping, and deep research modes. The service is currently single-source but plans to add multi-source aggregation to address the problem that different search engines return different results for the same query.
Background
- Dogpile.com is a metasearch engine (launched in 1996) that aggregates results from multiple search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) rather than maintaining its own index. The name comes from the "pile" of search results it returns. It is owned by System1, an ad-tech and data company.