The hidden truth behind search engines?? Well most of the big search engines, actuall buy there web search information via applications they run on their servers, that query the big guys. For example,, Yahoo use to only have there one search engine stuff, and now that content has moved to their "Directory" listing, but there WEB SEARCH feature is now powered by GOOGLE. So why waste time going to yahoo and be destractided by ads and portal features? Just go to google.com! Below is a list of who is in cahoots with who, this often changes, and some search engines use mulitple sources.
Basicly the big main guys are:
google.com inktomi.com alltheweb.com infospace.com overture.com
Personaly i would NEVER USE A SEARCH ENGINES THAT REQUIRES YOU TO PAY TO HAVE YOUR SITE LISTED THERE well only FOR PROFIT sites will PAY right?? and most profit site often dont have good content! So here is the search engines i recomeend you use that are free for peeps to submit to:
#1 dmoz.org USES REAL PEOPLE that look at each site before adding it
#2 google.com
#3 alltheweb.com
#4 altavistia.com
NOW WHAT DO I DO WHEN I WANT TO FIND SOMETHING??
I use Copernic Search Engine Software that checks all these guys at one time.. look in the software section of this site.
| COMAPAIRSION OF SEARCH ENGINES | ||||
| SEARCH ENGINE | POWERED BY | URL TO SUBMIT TO AS OF 11/14/02 | ||
| yahoo.com | http://www.google.com/addurl.html | |||
| looksmart | inktomi | http://ink.ineedhits.com/ | ||
| dmoz.org | dmoz.org | http://dmoz.org/add.html | ||
| aol.com | http://www.google.com/addurl.html | |||
| mns.com | msn & teoma for 10 POPULAR (looksmart to add url) | http://ink.ineedhits.com/ | ||
| excite.com | google,looksmart-inktomi-askjeeves | http://www.google.com/addurl.html | ||
| alltheweb.com | alltheweb | http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php | ||
| fastsearch | alltheweb | http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php | ||
| google.com | http://www.google.com/addurl.html | |||
| metacrawler.com | infospace (ah-ha to submit) | http://www.ah-ha.com/list/list_addurl.asp | ||
| northernlight.com | northernlight.com | http://northernlight.com | ||
| dogpile.com | infospace (ah-ha to submit) | http://www.ah-ha.com/list/list_addurl.asp | ||
| hotbot.com | fastsearch | http://www.hotbot.lycos.co.uk/submit.html | ||
| lycos.com | fastsearch | http://www.hotbot.lycos.co.uk/submit.html | ||
| go.com | overture | http://overture.com | ||
| about.com | about | http://about.com | ||
| ah-ha.com | ah-ha | http://www.ah-ha.com/list/list_addurl.asp | ||
| askjeeves.com | askjeeves.com ($30 per URL) | http://ask.ineedhits.com/ | ||
| icqsearch.com | google.com | http://www.google.com/addurl.html | ||
| iwon.com | google.com | http://www.google.com/addurl.html | ||
| jayde.com | jayde (free!) | http://search.jayde.com/cgi-bin/addurl.cgi? | ||
| kanoodle.com | kanoodle bid for location | http://knoodle.com | ||
| netscape.com | http://www.google.com/addurl.html | |||
| overture.com | overture - Inktomi powered (sell top 6 guys) | http://ink.ineedhits.com/ | ||
| wisenut.com | zeal (looksmart) | http://ink.ineedhits.com/ | ||
| altavista.com | altavista.com | http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new | ||
| compuserve.com | AOL | http://www.google.com/addurl.html | ||
| teoma.com | teoma (askjeeves,ineedhits,google) | http://teoma.com | ||
| web crawler | infospace (ah-ha to submit) | http://www.ah-ha.com/list/list_addurl.asp | ||
| Inktomi | intomi (paid submit via reseller ineedhits $39) | http://ink.ineedhits.com/ | ||
| Findwhat | findwhat (pay per click) | http://findwhat.com | ||
| infospace.com | ah-ha | http://www.ah-ha.com/list/list_addurl.asp | ||
