Major Search Engines :
The Major Targetted Search Engines and Directories
AllTheWeb.com (FAST Search)
http://www.alltheweb.com/
AllTheWeb.com (also known as FAST Search)
consistently has one of the largest indexes of the web. FAST also offers
large multimedia and mobile/wireless web indexes, available from its site.
The site, also known as AllTheWeb.com, is a showcase for FAST's search
technologies. FAST's results are provided to numerous portals, including
those run by Terra Lycos. FAST Search launched in May 1999.
*Submission Fee: FREE
AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com
AltaVista is one of the oldest
crawler-based search engines on the web. It has a large index of web pages
and a wide range of power searching commands. It also offers news search,
shopping search and multimedia search. AltaVista opened in December 1995.
It was owned by Digital, then run by Compaq (which purchased Digital in
1998), then spun off into a separate company, which is now controlled by
CMGI.
*Submission Fee: USD 78 for 1st URL and USD 48 for 2 – 10
URL’s and USD 38 for 11-500 URL’s
WiseNut
http://www.wisenut.com
Wisenut, a latest venture from the team
who developed “My Simon”, a comparison-shopping site. Soon after it’s
launch, it’s been treated as a major contender of the google’s position as
the No1 search service in the world. In April 2002 LookSmart took over
Wisenut.com
*Submission Fee: FREE
Google
http://www.google.com
Google is a top choice for web searchers.
It offers the largest collection of web pages of any crawler-based search
engine. Google makes heavy use of link analysis as a primary way to rank
these pages. This can be especially helpful in finding good sites in
response to general searches such as "cars" and "travel," because users
across the web have in essence voted for good sites by linking to them.
The system works so well that Google has gained wide-spread praise for its
high relevancy. Google provides web page search results to a variety of
partners, including Yahoo and Netscape Search. Google also provides the
ability to search for images, through Usenet discussions and its own
version of the Open Directory .
*Submission Fee: FREE
HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com
In most cases, HotBot's first page of
results comes from the Direct Hit service, and then secondary results come
from the Inktomi search engine, which is also used by other services. It
gets its directory information from the Open Directory project . HotBot
launched in May 1996 as Wired Digital's entry into the search engine
market. Lycos purchased Wired Digital in October 1998 and continues to run
HotBot as a separate search service.
*Submission Fee: Paid submission to
Inktomi USD 39 for 1st URL and USD 25 for all the subsequent
ones
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