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| AltaVista
is perhaps the most popular spider-driven search engine on the 'Net.
While CMGI's crawler software will theoretically, over time, index every page on the Net,
it is useful to submit your site to the spider. By submitting your site's index page,
AltaVista will automatically list all pages connected to it, effectively indexing your entire site.
The employment of META tags will increase the chances that your site will be reached on a relevant search. |
AOL Search
is another popular directory, powered by the DMOZ Open Directory Project.
Your site will be reviewed by a real human in order to
determine its value
in the category you selected for its placement. |
Dmoz / Open Directory Project
Started as NewHoo, an alternative directory to Yahoo whose listings are collected by 1000s
of independent editors, rather than employees of a giant corporation. Now,
the listings presented in the AOL-owned Dmoz are used by several other search engines and portals,
making a listing here one of the most important to obtain. |
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Excite
is one of the top five major search engines on the Web.
Both a categorised directory and a keyword-driven search engine,
Excite lists over 1.5 million databases, including reviews of more than 35,000 sites. |
Fast / All the Web
rightfully claims to be the single largest index of web documents.
It presently catalogs over 600 million pages,
with billions more expected
to be indexed within the coming years.
Fast's results are used on
other search engines and portals,
which makes this an essential free submission |
Google
features the most advanced website ranking algorithm around.
This index utilizes a number of factors,
such as the calculating the quantity and quality of inbound links in order
to determine a document's relevance. |
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HotBot
is another popular search engine, and one which is particularly easy to use.
It's also said to be the 'most complete' web index,
featuring
results from several different sources within its results. |
Jayde Online Directory
is one of the fastest-growing search engines on the Net.
Jayde's 40 categories are easy to navigate, and a keyword search is also
provided.
Submission to Jayde's index may take a few weeks to process. |
LookSmart
has been set up as both a directory that you may 'Explore' (containing thousands of categories and sub-categories),
and as a searchable database of approved entries. The search function also links to AltaVista's
huge listing if it fails to produce the desired results. It is best if you browse the site prior to
submission in order to locate the appropriate category and sub-category in which you wnat your site to appear. |
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Lycos
is a well-respected and increasingly popular search spider.
Lycos also lists thousands of sites in its categorised Web guide. |
Nerd World Media
has established a popular Web directory and search engine.
The directory arranges sites by subject. |
OneKey
is the largest guaranteed error free, kid-safe search engine on the
Net.
All sites that wish to be listed at OneKey must have G-rated content and,
preferably, no commercial content. Sites that contain
ads will be marked as such
in order to help children discern between 'real' content and commercial content. |
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Scrub The Web
is an increasingly popular spider-driven search engine that allows surfers to search
the entire Web, or to limit their search to sites
within a particular category.
The link submission process is quick and easy. Soon, Scrub the Web is planning to
launch 'Super Scrub', a
robot-search that has apparently already indexed over 80 million
pages. |
Teoma
was recently added into the Ask Jeeves suite of search properties.
Its appeal comes from a slick collection of data retrieval and indexing
technologies that provides some of the most accurate results on the web,
in addition to the simple Google-like interface that seems to be the preference of consumers these days. |
WebCrawler
is a spider-driven search index listing millions of sites.
It is also one of the top 10 search-engines on the Net, according to traffic reports. |
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