SurfSMART Online Marketing Guide

Search Engines List

Note: Search engines prices, partnerships, acquisitions and who's powering who can change. The information here is updated as of June 2004. 

Top Search Engines (Crawler-based) that you should submit to:

Yahoo! Submit Your Site - FREE
Yahoo now owns Overture which acquired AlltheWeb and AltaVista. Yahoo's previous purchase of Inktomi is now being combined with AlltheWeb and AltaVista's Technology to make Yahoo's current crawler. 

Top Directories (Human-Edited)  that you should submit to:

Zeal - LookSmarts Human-Edited Non-commercial FREE Listing Service

Pay for Performance (Pay per click, pay per view, etc.) that you should consider

Google Ad Words 
Provider of paid results for top search engines including: 
AOL, AskJeeves, Lycos, Hotbot, Netscape, Teoma and Google among many others.

Find What  

LookSmart  
Provider of paid results for top search engines including: 
Lycos, MSN, Looksmart

Other Search Engines that you should submit to:

Gigablast.com

About.com

SearchKing.com

Qango.com

Links2Go.com

Aeiwi.com 

Why? Because all of these listed here are powered by one of the engines listed above, meaning, their results come from one of the search engines databases. So why do they still exist and why do people use them? Because they may give you more choices when searching and offer different user friendly features. Many of the use to have their own databases but have found that forming partnerships is much more effective. They are listed here just for FYI for those of you who think I may have forgotten a few of the biggies that you should be listed on.

AOL Search (search.aol.com)
Powered by Google

Netscape (search.netscape.com)
Owned by AOL, powered by Google

MSN (search.msn.com)
Powered by Yahoo though it is currently developing its own crawler-based technology which could be completed before the end of this year.

AllTheWeb.com
Powered and owned by Yahoo.

AltaVista.com
Powered and Owned by Yahoo. 

Lycos.com
Powered by LookSmart and Yahoo (Inktomi).

HotBot.com
Owned by Lycos. Allows users to choose between searching with Google, AskJeeves (Teoma) or Hotbot (Yahoo). 

Teoma.com
Owned by AskJeeves. 

Excite.com
Powered by Yahoo

iWon.com
Powered by Yahoo

WebCrawler.com

PepeSearch.com

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