Major Search Engine Information

Promote Web Sites considers the following to be "Major Search Engines", because they account for over 98% of all searches. We auto submit our web sites to hundreds of  search engines Worldwide, but we hand submit every web site to all of the following search engines. Our sites are optimized so that "Your Business" is featured on the first page of the search results with each of the following search engines. We only guarantee "Your Business" will be featured on the first page of the search results on 5 of the major search engines, however, being on the first page of all 19 is not uncommon. Being on 17 or 18 of the major search engines is the norm. We are proud to say that we have never had a need to waive the $50.00 US$ fee because our client's business was not on the first page of at least 5 of the major search engines.

AlltheWeb combines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine. AlltheWeb indexes billions of web pages, hundreds of millions of multimedia, Audio and FTP files.

AltaVista offers features that appeal to basic searchers. AltaVista was started December 1995 and is consistently one of the largest search engines on the web, in terms of pages indexed. It was owned by Digital.

   AOL Search allows its members to search the web as well as it's own AOL's content. The main listings for categories and web sites come from the Open Directory. Inktomi and Google provide crawler-based results, as backup to the directory information.

Ask Jeeves went into service in April 1997. It is human-powered search service that directs you to the exact page that answers your question. If it can not find a match within its own database, it will provide matching web pages from various search engines.

Dogpile is a meta-search engine that searches the Internet's top search engines such as About, Ask Jeeves, FAST, FindWhat, Google, LookSmart, Overture and many more. With one single, powerful search engine, you get more relevant and comprehensive results. When you use Dogpile, you are actually searching many search engines simultaneously.

Excite is one of the most popular search services on the web. Excite was launched in late 1995 and purchased WebCrawler in November of 1996. It has a large index and integrates non-web material such as company information and sports scores into its results.

FAST Search was launched in May 1999 and has set goals to index the entire web. It was the first search engine to break the 200 million web page index milestone and consistently has one of the largest indexes of the web. Some of the results found at Lycos are from the Fast index.

Google is a search engine with a huge index of the web. It uses link popularity as a primary way to position sites in a search. Google is praised for its high relevancy and now furnishes search results to other search engines.

HotBot is a favorite among researchers due to its many power searching features. HotBot was launched in May 1996. HotBot allows you to search the index of Fast, Google, Inktomi and Teoma from one search box. You only need to type the search string in one time and then click on each of the engine icons to get the result from all four. HotBot is owned by Lycos.

Inktomi was founded in 1996 with core search technology based on a research project at UC Berkeley that harnessed the power of parallel computing. Today, through top consumer portals and destination sites, Inktomi Web Search provides more than half of all Web users worldwide with the freshest, most relevant search experience. Inktomi's paid inclusion programs ensure that more than 100,000 online retailers and content publishers have their deepest Web content represented and frequently updated in the Inktomi Web Search index.

Lycos started out as a search engine, depending on listings that came from spidering the web. In April 1999, it shifted to a directory model similar to Yahoo. Its main listings come from the Open Directory project, and then secondary results come from the FAST Search engine.

MetaCrawler is a meta-search engine that searches the Internet's top search engines such as About, Ask Jeeves, FAST, FindWhat, LookSmart, Overture and many more. With one single, powerful search engine, you get the most relevant and comprehensive results. When you use MetaCrawler, you are actually searching many search engines simultaneously.

Microsoft's MSN Search receives search information and results from several other search engines. MSN Search also offers a unique way for Internet Explorer 5 users to save past searches.

Netscape Search's results come primarily from the Open Directory and Netscape's own "Smart Browsing" database. Secondary results come from Google.

The Open Directory was launched in June 1998. It still uses volunteer editors to catalog the web. The company pledged that anyone would be able to use information from the directory through an open license arrangement. Lycos and AOL Search also make heavy use of Open Directory data.

Overture was launched in 1997. In February 1998, it moved to its current pay-for-placement model and sells its main listings. It is the only company that allows you to buy a higher position in the search results. Our clients enjoy the benefits of being on the first page of the search results without paying for a higher placement.

Teoma is a crawler-based search engine. Unlike some of the other crawlers, Teoma has no free Add URL page. Ask Jeeves owns Teoma.

WebCrawler is a meta-search engine that searches the Internet's top search engines such as AltaVista, Direct Hit, and LookSmart. With one single, powerful search engine, you get the most comprehensive results. When you use WebCrawler, you are actually searching many search engines simultaneously. If you think about it, why would you search any single search engine, when you could search them all with WebCrawler.

Yahoo is the oldest major web site directory, having launched in late 1994. Yahoos search engine is the web's most popular search service and has a well-deserved reputation for helping people find information easily. Yahoo also supplements its own results with those from Google. If a search fails to find a match within Yahoo's own listings, then matches from Google are displayed.