Google quickly became the most used search engine on the web due to its accurate results and a massive index (over 1 billion pages). The results are highly relevant because of Google’s sophisticated ranking algorithm, which factors in how many links a page has pointing towards it, which should mean that they’ve been found by others to be good resources. Another great thing about Google is that it is designed for all-out speed.
» www.google.com
Lycos
Lycos started as a spider-based engine but in ‘99 changed to a directory, getting listings from the Open Directory, with secondary results coming from FAST and Direct Hit. Lycos owns HotBot, but continues that service independently. Lycos is used by a decent amount of people.
» www.lycos.com
FAST Search
Also known as ‘All the Web’, FAST has always intended to index as much of the web as possible. It has a consistently large index and was the first search engine to break the 200 million results mark. The interface is slick and the results get passed back to you nice and quickly.
» www.alltheweb.com
Ask
This smart engine launched in ‘97, and used to be known as “Ask Jeeves”, featuring a gimmicky butler who would answer your questions. Instead of a user entering keywords into the form, this engine returns web pages based on a question asked by the user. A good engine, and popular with new web users.
» www.askjeeves.com
AOL Search
AOL Search allows its members to search both the web and AOL’s own content. External category and site listings come from the Open Directory and crawler-based results come from Inktomi.
» search.aol.com
MSN Search
Microsoft’s MSN Search is part of its popular MSN portal site. It is a Looksmart powered directory, with secondary results from Inktomi. Internet Explorer’s integrated search toolbar uses this index as its default.
» search.msn.com
And the rest...
You can submit your site to these search engines if you want, but I wouldn’t spend too much time trying to improve your ranking in any of them.
AltaVista
AltaVista used to be one of the most popular search engines on the web, due to a consistently large index and many advanced tools for searchers (» page translation for example, which is a good service). It went through a turbulent time, with its management apparently unsure whether it was a portal site or a no-nonsense search engine. It has now settled on being a dedicated search engine, but doesn’t look so hot and has been losing users for ages. AltaVista makes its own listings and supplements them with sites from the Open Directory, Ask and Looksmart.
» www.altavista.com
Excite
Anyone remember the Excite TV ad where the guy smashes his car window? That was great. Anyway, Excite is one of the more popular search sites on the net with a wide range of services and a large index. It takes ages to get listed. I’m talking multiple months.
» www.excite.com
Netscape Search
The search engine offered to Netscape users at Netscape.com. Many results come from the Open Directory, with paid listings also making an appearance. More results come from Google.
» www.netscape.com
GoTo
To get a good listing in GoTo, you have to pay, which is becoming an increasingly popular way for the search engines to make money. It seems to be a cost-effective promotion method too. Other non-paid results are taken from Inktomi. The paid results also show up in other engines like AltaVista, AOL Search, Lycos, HotBot and Netscape Search.
» www.goto.com
DogPile
Dogpile is a useful search engine because the results you see are actually search results it gets from other search engines and then collects and collates together into one report.
» www.dogpile.com
Direct Hit
Direct Hit refers to itself as a ‘popularity engine’, because it bases its ranking system on the amount of visitors a site gets through its results pages. This engine is owned by Ask Jeeves and partnered with HotBot and MSN search.
» www.directhit.com
Go / Infoseek
Go is a large portal site from Disney, which along with the usual portal features like email, offers a comprehensive search function through Infoseek, which it bought. Go also includes a large human-compiled directory. Go is not associated with GoTo — remember that.
» www.go.com
HotBot
Owned by » Wired Digital (of WebMonkey fame), HotBot is another search engine that used to be popular. Many of its results come from Direct Hit, and the rest from Inktomi, with directory information coming from the Open Directory.
» www.hotbot.com
iWon
The lurid iWon serves up search results from Inktomi. iWon’s selling point is that it gives out prizes to searchers, on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
» www.iwon.com
NBCi
Formerly known as Snap, this is a large directory of web sites, backed by the NBC television network. Search results are supplemented by Inktomi.
» www.nbci.com
Raging Search
Owned by AltaVista, this is their no-frills search engine. It uses the same index and ranking system but no portal feature. Obviously introduced to combat Google’s policy, but with nicer presentation. No fun though.
» raging.altavista.com
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