System1 Launches Dogpile Fetch, a New Search MCP Server From the Internet’s Original Metasearch Engine, Giving AI Agents a Wider View of the Web

A new analysis from the company's Dogpile Developer team suggests AI agents relying on a single search index see only about half of what's findable; Dogpile Fetch was built to close that gap — and installs in Claude Code, Cursor, or any AI agent in under two minutes

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--System1 (NYSE: SST), which operates flagship internet brands including CouponFollow, MapQuest, and Startpage.com, and a best-in-class customer acquisition and marketing platform powered by artificial intelligence, today launched Dogpile Fetch, a web search API and MCP server built for AI agents, under Dogpile — the metasearch engine that has been fetching the web since 1996.

Dogpile Fetch installs in Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client in under two minutes. Every query is classified and routed to the best backend automatically, returning ranked results, knowledge graph data, and People Also Ask questions. For harder questions, a Deep mode breaks the query into multiple searches and deduplicates what comes back. Pricing starts at $2 per 1,000 calls, with a free monthly credit and no credit card required.

The MCP launch is grounded in new research. In an analysis published this week, the Dogpile team ran real agent queries through seven popular search APIs and found that any single search index surfaced only about half of what the others could collectively find. A person notices thin results and searches again. An AI agent doesn't — it takes ten results and writes a confident answer.

"We measured it: pick any one search tool and your agent misses about half of what the other indexes find," said Chris Testa, System1's Chief Technology Officer. "Thirty years ago Dogpile’s answer was to search them all and pile up the best results. It turns out that’s exactly what your agent needs now.”

In 1996, no two search engines agreed on anything, so Dogpile searched them all at once and piled up the best results — hence the name. In 2006, a study commissioned by Dogpile's then-parent company ran 12,570 real queries across the four major engines of the day and found that 84.9% of first-page results appeared on only one. Twenty years later, Dogpile's new analysis found the same pattern holds for the search APIs powering AI agents — and this time, the searcher can't tell what it's missing.

Developers can get an API key and go fetch at developer.dogpile.com.

About Dogpile

Dogpile has been fetching the web since 1996. One of the first metasearch engines, it was built on a simple idea: no single search engine sees the whole web, so search them all at once and pile up the best results. In its thirtieth year, the dog is still fetching — at dogpile.com for people, and now at developer.dogpile.com for AI agents.

About System1

System1 (NYSE: SST) operates flagship consumer brands across shopping, travel, and search — including MapQuest, Startpage, CouponFollow, and Dogpile — alongside a best-in-class customer acquisition and marketing platform powered by AI and machine learning. For more information, visit System1.com.