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There are many search engines in the world. Some of them are big players, and most of users are using them, like google.com.
It is recommended you register your web site with as many search engines as possible. Google even index the
search results in some other small search engines. Based on statistics from WebSideStory, the most popular search engines (as of March 30, 2004) are:
Google:
40.9%
Yahoo:
27.4%
MSN Search:
19.6%
Others:
12.1%
So, at least you need register your web site with the above search engines.
The following is a list of search engines we recommend to you:
Google is the most popular search engine. Make sure you at least submit your site to them.
They accept free URL submission. You may pay for "Adwords Select" if you can afford.
Froogle is an experimental sub-site of Google that is currently for English language,
US websites only, selling their own products. (No affiliates!) It is essential
if you have products of your own to sell through your US website, that you set up a
"live feed" from your site to Froogle. To get started on the live feed process,
you need to fill in this form.
Click for more info on Froogle.
As of February 2004, Yahoo! has stopped displaying Google results as its "search results" and is displaying what it calls "Yahoo! Search". This is different than the results you get when you search the "Yahoo! Directory". To be listed in their Yahoo! Search results, you need to sign up here:
Overture Site Match. Click here for more info about Overture Site Match
Microsoft is known for constantly reworking its software products until they get them right, and MSN Search is a shining example of the company putting that same effort into an online product. In particular, the company has its own team of editors that monitors the most popular searches being performed and then hand-picks sites that are believed to be the most relevant. After performing a search, "Popular Topics" shown below the search box on the results page are also suggestions built largely by editors to guide you into making a more refined search. When appropriate, search results may also feature links to encyclopedia content from Microsoft Encarta or news headlines, at the top of the page.
Of course, humans editors can't do everything, so MSN Search also relies on search providers for answers to many of its queries. Usually, it will be human-powered results from the LookSmart directory that dominate the page. Unlike when MSN editors are involved, these human-powered results are not hand-picked to match a query. Instead, MSN uses its own search algorithm to sift through all the listings from LookSmart to automatically find answers that are believed to be best.
AOL Search provides users with editorial listings that come Google's crawler-based index. Indeed, the same search on Google and AOL Search will come up with very similar matches. So, why would you use AOL Search? Primarily because you are an AOL user. The "internal" version of AOL Search provides links to content only available within the AOL online service. In this way, you can search AOL and the entire web at the same time. The "external" version lacks these links. Why wouldn't you use AOL Search? If you like Google, many of Google's features such as "cached" pages are not offered by AOL Search.
The "4-in-1" option at HotBot was introduced in December 2002. However, HotBot has a long history as a search brand before this date.
HotBot debuted in May 1996, it gained a strong following among serious searchers for the quality and comprehensiveness of its crawler-based results, which were provided by Inktomi, at the time. It also caught the attention of experienced web users and techies, especially for the unusual colors and interface it continues to sport today.
HotBot gained more notoriety when it switched over to using Direct Hit's "clickthrough" results for its main listings in 1999. Direct Hit was then one of the "hot" search engines that had recently appeared. Unfortunately, the quality of Direct Hit's results couldn't match those of another "hot" player that had debuted at the same time, Google. HotBot's popularity began to drop.
Even worse, HotBot also suffered by being owned by Lycos (now Terra Lycos). Lycos had acquired HotBot when it purchased Wired Digital in October 1998. Lycos failed to make search a priority on its flagship Lycos site as well as HotBot through much of 1999 and 2000, as it focused instead on adding "portal" features. The company refocused on search in late 2001, making significant improvements to the Lycos site and, as noted, reworked the HotBot site at the end of 2002.
DMOZ - The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web.
The Open Directory uses volunteer editors to catalog the web. Formerly known as NewHoo, it was launched in June 1998. It was acquired by AOL Time Warner-owned Netscape in November 1998, and the company pledged that anyone would be able to use information from the directory through an open license arrangement.
While you can search at the Open Directory site itself, this is not recommended. The site has no "backup" results that kick in should there not be a match in the human-compiled database. In addition, the ranking of sites during keyword searching is poor, while alphabetical ordering is used when you choose to "browse" categories by topic.
Instead, to scan the valuable information compiled by the Open Directory, consider using the version offered by Google, the Google Directory. Here, keyword searching uses Google's refined relevancy algorithms and makes use of link analysis to better propel good pages from the human database to the top. In addition, when viewing sites by category, they will be listed in PageRank order, which means the most popular sites based on analyzing links from across the web will be listed first.
Vivisimo does not maintain its own index, so there is no way to ADD your site to Vivisimo directly. Vivisimo is a kind of meta search engine, meaning it only pulls results from other search engines. Vivisimo is an excellent search engine for eBay current listings, among other things. One can improve one's rankings at Vivisimo over time just by getting listed in other search engines and ensuring that one's site has good content.
It costs a minimum of $49.95 to sign up here at InfoSpace, with an option to pay another $24.98 to get into Excite. Signing up here gets you into InfoSpace, WebCrawler, Dogpile, MetaCrawler, Verizon and NBC, too. It's a good deal. Do it, but only do it ONCE for all of them. They have their form set up to look different for each entryway into it - but it just gets your site into their central database one time. In other words, don't pay separately at WebCrawler, Dogpile, MetaCrawler, and so on. One payment is all you need to make.
Note that WebCrawler is part of the "Infospace" group. If you pay to register your site in one of these InfoSpace sites, you effectively get your site into all of them.
If you click on WebCrawler's "submit a site" button it takes you to a sign-up page for www.ah-ha.com and costs $49.95 to sign up. There's no way to get in to WebCrawler for free any more.
Click here to sign up to pay $49.95 to get into MetaCrawler. I recommend signing up with them. When you do, they guarantee you will get into Dogpile, MetaCrawler, WebCrawler, Verizon, NBC, and Excite (for another $29.95). This is a good deal for the money.
Note: You only need to sign up in ONE of the InfoSpace sites to get into them all.
Dogpile is part of the InfoSpace group. This is also a "meta" search engine that goes out and obtains results from many other search engines.
It is cheap ($49.95) to pay to get into DogPile as part of the InfoSpace group. Paying InfoSpace will also get you into MetaCrawler, Dogpile, WebCrawler, Verizon, NBC, and (for another $24.98) into Excite.
Sign up here.
Excite is now a meta search engine, pulling results from Google, Fast, AskJeeves, About, LookSmart, FindWhat and Overture. Most of the results seem to come from Google. Do well at Google and you should do fine here at Excite. (Two years ago they were only showing results from Overture.)
Google now provides the primary search results for iWon. You'll see the sites from the "AdWord Select" program at Google as "featured listings" at iWon, above all the other listings. So you can buy top listing here at iWon by paying enough to be #1 at Google on your key words.
Overture and LookSmart are also supposed to provide results to iWon, but I don't see those results when I search at iWon.
MaMMa.com is worth paying for a listing. If you're in a hurry, use the
Fast URL Submit. Note that they also offer a pay-per-clickthrough program called "maMMa Classifieds".
WhatUSeek is affiliated with maMMa.com. Paying at maMMa.com should get you into WhatUSeek. You can get in for free, but it won't be quick: sign up free for WhatUseek.
This is another small search engine that feeds info to Dogpile. You have to sign up, then they send you an email with a link you must click in order to make the registration effective. It's free.
As of early 2004, AltaVista is now part of Yahoo! We are not sure at this time whether their free submission page will get your site into the Yahoo Search Engine Results. The only SURE way to get in to Yahoo's Search Engine results is through Overture, for which you will need to pay.
Wisenut was bought in April of 2002 by LookSmart for about US $9.2 Million, and now displays search results provided by Looksmart.
From the search page of WiseNut, and after any search is completed, you'll see a link to "submit a site" at the top right of the page.
If you sell something on your site, you are taken to Looksmart to sign up for a Looklistings account.
If you don't sell anything on your site you are directed to a sign-up form for Zeal, an affiliated "volunteer" directory created by LookSmart. The sign-up form is, in my opinion, overly invasive of privacy. I don't recommend signing up with them because of it. There's no way to submit a commercial website through Zeal - ecommerce sites are forbidden.
If you feel that paying for a listing at Looksmart is a good idea, it will get you listed with WiseNut as well.
AEIWI stands for "An Experiment in Web Indexing". It is a smaller search engine but seems to be growing in popularity and size. It "reads" the meta tags from the main page of your site immediately when you submit your URL here, and says it takes a week to get into their database.
Warning: if you are easily offended, don't visit AEIWI because it makes no effort to censor any material.
AllTheWeb Also known as "FastSearch" and "Fast". This is another "meta" search engine that goes out and looks in other search engines for answers to your search. They also appear to have both an index and a directory, so they are both a search engine and a directory AND a meta search engine. This one is free.
Use this command when searching at FAST to see if your site is already included in their index: url.all:http://www.yoursitename.com/yourpage.htm (of course you need to put in your own site and page names).
This is a smaller search engine based in Germany, but written in the English language. It is generally worth taking the time to go through their registration process.
If their "Add URL" form doesn't work, you can send an email to them listing all the URLs you want to enter, here.
I like the results I get from this search engine. It is similar to "AskJeeves" but has a better back end, in my opinion. You ask it questions in normal language. The first result is usually exactly what I'm looking for. Sometimes it is just uncanny. As my daughter asked, "How does it know what you are thinking?" (Result relevancy seems to have declined some in the last year, however.)
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