List
of the Top Search Engines
Search
engines, directories and how many Alexa visitors they had.
#1
Google
Total Alexa Visits: 13,525,582 (#5 +366.2%)
Search Area: http://www.google.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.google.com/addurl
Notes: Here is what Google have to say about themselves. "A
page has high importance if lots of other pages with high importance point to
it. This well-defined notion of importance makes finding high quality sites easy." Translated,
this means link popularity (how many incoming links), link relevancy (what the
links say), and link quality (popularity of the sites linking to you) are very
important. They've also added the Open Directory to their search results. Google
continues to grow in importance. Its search results are accurate, and it's very
easy to submit pages to it.
#2
Yahoo
Total Alexa Visits: 12,556,597 (#1 +7.2%)
Search Area: http://www.yahoo.com
Site Submit Area: Navigate to the category most appropriate
and use the small "suggest a site" link.
It is almost impossible to get listed in Yahoo these days, unless you are willing
to pay for their Express Service.
Notes: Yahoo is a directory, not a search engine. Each submission to Yahoo
is reviewed by a human, if they like your site, your site will be added to
the directory. For your best chance on getting into Yahoo, follow the formula
in "Winning the Search Engine Wars" by Planet Ocean Communications.
Backup search results are provided by Google.
#3
MSN Search
Total Alexa Visits: 9,076,984 (#2 +93.7%)
Search Area: http://search.msn.com
Site Submit Area: http://search.msn.com/addurl.asp
Notes: Submissions are handled by LookSmart. Search results come from the LookSmart
directory followed by Inktomi technology. Real Names and Direct Hit also have
a presence.
#4
Alta Vista
Total Alexa Visits: 4,911,981 (#3 +9.4%)
Search Area: http://www.av.com
Page Submit Area: http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/addurl
Notes: A simple url (web page address) is all that's required to submit a page
for free. Or you can use the paid LookSmart submission service. The free submit
button is at the bottom of the page submit area. Then you'll need to decipher
a code for every five web pages that you want to submit.
#5
GoHip!
Total Alexa Visits: 4,395,924 (#13 +466.1%)
Search Area: http://www.gohip.com
Site Submit Area: No submit area.
Notes: A meta search engine that retrieves the top results from paid search
engines like FindWhat and 7Search. Rapid growth was due to a viral marketing
strategy that infected / affected users email.
#6
Excite
Total Alexa Visits: 2,810,318 (#4 -18.7%)
Search Area: http://www.excite.com
Page Submit Area: http://www.excite.com/info/add_url
Notes: Use the LookSmart paid submission or click on the tiny free link at
the bottom of the page. There you'll find a small form to fill out. Excite
has a nasty habit of binging and purging pages. One month you'll have hundreds
of pages indexed and the next month only your home page. Be sure to link all
your pages and web sites together to increase your stickiness in this engine.
Excite continues to be a default search engine in the Explorer 5.0 browser.
#7
Ask Jeeves
Total Alexa Visits: 2,616,059 (#7 +23.4%)
Search Area: http://www.ask.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.ask.com/docs/help/Help_faq.asp#submiturl
Notes: A search engine where you ask questions in plain English. Ask Jeeves
offers many advertising and ecommerce options. Ad placement may be triggered
by keywords, categories, channels or sponsorships. To get your site listed,
they ask that you read their guidelines and then send the URL and a brief description
of the site via e-mail.
#8
GoTo
Total Alexa Visits: 1,492,023 (#11 +22.1%)
Search Area: http://www.goto.com
Site Submit Area: No free submissions
Notes: Targeted paid advertising where keywords are purchased. Highest bidder
on a particular search phrase ie: .25¢ comes up first in the results.
You only pay for actual click-throughs to your site, not by impressions. After
the paid listings, searches default to Inktomi. Listings from this engine appear
on AltaVista, HotBot, AOL Search, Lycos and many others.
#9
Netscape Search
Total Alexa Visits: 1,476,031(#6 -34%)
Search Area: http://home.netscape.com/escapes/search/netsearch_0.html
Page Submit Area: Use the Open Directory
Notes: This is the search area on Netscape. It is what you get when you click
on the search button in the Netscape web browser. Search results come from Open
Directory (dmoz.org). If there are no search results,
there are just links provided to other search engines.
#10
HotBot
Total Alexa Visits: 1,340,026 (#8 -8.3%)
Search Area: http://www.hotbot.com
Page Submit Area: http://www.hotbot.com/addurl.asp
Notes: An url and email address are required to submit to this engine. It uses
custom filtered Inktomi results through Direct Hit technology. Its directory
is provided by Open Directory. This engine is owned by Lycos and run as a separate
service.
#??
Where is Inktomi
Total Alexa Visits: Lots
Search Area: Several
Major Search Engines
Page Submit Area: Use HotBot
or the paid service at PositionTech.com
Notes: Inktomi is a technology - not a search engine itself - that is used
and branded by several major portals and search engines. Inktomi provides search
results to over 50 partners, including AOL, MSN, HotBot, and iWon.
To submit
to this engine there is a free submit area on the HotBot
site. By using the free submit, your page will get
a slight penalty until it is also found by Inktomi's automated spider. Once
your page is indexed by the crawling spider, the penalty is removed. So
be sure to link to any newly created pages with several others. Using the
paid submission service at PositionTech.com avoids the penalty and ensures
your page gets spidered every 48 hours.
#11
LookSmart
Total Alexa Visits: 1,059,330 (#12 +12.2%)
Search Area: http://www.looksmart.com
Site Submit Area: http://submit.looksmart.com/
Notes: Unless you are a non profit organization, you'll need to pay to get
reviewed by a human editor. LookSmart is partnered with, and providing directory
results for Microsoft's MSN, Excite@Home, AltaVista, and InfoSpace. Default
web search results provided by Alta Vista.
#12
Lycos
Total Alexa Visits: 981,153 (#14 +33.2%)
Search Area: http://www.lycos.com/
Page Submit Area: http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html
Notes: An url and email address are all that are required to submit your site.
Lycos is notoriously slow to add spidered sites and it may take three months
or more before your site finally shows up in the index. Search results include
directory listings and reviewed sites, followed by paid GoTo links, shopping
links and a couple of "found" web sites.
#13
Hoovers Online
Total Alexa Visits: 909,076 (#54 +10,030%)
Search Area: http://www.hoovers.com
Site Submit Area: No submit area.
Notes: Formerly Powerize.com,
Hoovers Online is a major business portal. Search results are press releases
and company news from Associated Press, PR Newswire and the other usual leading
business and financial sources.
#14
Go
Total Alexa Visits: 711,036 (#9 -42.5%)
Search Area: http://www.go.com/
Page Submit Area: No free submissions
Notes: Formerly the great Infoseek search engine, that once upon a time used
to spider submitted web sites within 24 hours. It emerged into a portal called
Go, and has since then fizzled into being powered by paid GoTo listings alone.
To list your site here, you'll need to bid for terms at GoTo.
#15
NBCi
Total Alexa Visits: 593,089 (#17 +54.1%)
Search Area: http://www.nbci.com/
Site Submit Area:http://home.nbci.com/LMOID/resource/0,566,-1077,00.html
Notes: Formerly known as Snap! it was a directory of sites compiled by human
editors. To get your site listed, go to the above url, and sign up for a free
membership by following the instructions. You can then find the most appropriate
category and submit your site. Once your site is submitted, you can choose
to "promote it" for a fee and get a better listing.
#16
InfoSpace
Total Alexa Visits: 545,494 (#10 -55.6%)
Search Area: http://www.infospace.com/
Page Submit Area: http://www.infospace.com/info/submit.htm
Notes: InfoSpace provides maps, directions and city guides to Alexa and other
online services. They also provide a people and business finder to MSN Search.
Search results on InfoSpace come from LookSmart followed by results from Goto,
then Inktomi and others. You can use the large InfoSpace form (requiring
keywords, description and MUCH more) to submit your site,
but it's not clear where you'll come up in InfoSpace search results by taking
the time to do so.
#17
Fast.no (alltheweb.com)
Total Alexa Visits: 495,401 (#20 +65.1%)
Search Area: http://www.alltheweb.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com/add_url.php3
Notes: One of the largest indexes of the internet but until August 1999 they
didn't have a submission area. Sometimes the submit page is up, at other times
it's down, check back in a few days to see if the submit area goes offline.
An url is all that's required to submit to this search engine. Expect this
search engine to grow in popularity as more search engines and portals start
adding custom filtering to Fast technology.
#18
Open Source Directory
Total Alexa Visits: 476,272 (#29 +172.9%)
Search Area: http://www.dmoz.org
Site Submit Area: http://www.dmoz.org/add.htm
Notes: Being in this position on this list is a little bit misleading for the
Open Directory. The Alexa visits only reflects the amount of users that went
directly to dmoz.org. In reality, the Open Source Directory is a much bigger,
second only to Yahoo in popularity. Several search engines use the Open Source
Directory as their default searches, directory or portal, including Lycos,
AOL and Netscape Search.
Find the
most appropriate category and submit your site information from the Add
URL link at the top of that category page. In other
words, find the best place for your site to go, and click on Add
URL from there. This directory has been widely adopted
across the internet as competition for Yahoo and is run by hundreds of volunteer
editors. Follow the same rules for submission as Yahoo! Keep your site descriptions
free of brand names unless you own them, and remove any hype or self promotion.
#19
AOL NetFind
Total Alexa Visits: 469,381 (#16 +13.5%)
Search Area: http://www.aol.com/netfind
Site Submit Area: http://search.aol.com/add.adp
Notes: The America Online web site. There is no true submit area as they have
switched to the Open Directory with an Inktomi back up.
#20
Google News Groups (Deja
News)
Total Alexa Visits: 431,418 (#23 +75.4%)
Search Area: http://groups.google.com/
Site Submit Area: Navigate to
the appropriate group and post
Notes: Once known as dejanews.com and deja.com, it tried to put the newsgroups
behind it and become a portal. The site has now been acquired and restored
to its former glory by Google search engine. To get found in the newsgroups
search area, submit a posting to an appropriate newsgroup using your favorite
internet browser. For best results and maximum exposure from your postings,
be sure to read the chapter in Nothing But Net on posting to newsgroups.
#21
Northern Light
Total Alexa Visits: 425,649 (#15 -4.2%)
Search Area: http://www.northernlight.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html
Notes: A good search engine with a large index. Makes me wonder why they are
not more popular. As well as having a free database, they also provide paid
searches in other media like newspapers, news wires and magazines.
#22
Mamma
Total Alexa Visits: 405,563 (#21 +39.1%)
Search Area: http://www.mamma.com
Site Submit Area: No submit
area.
Notes: A popular meta search engine that retrieves top results from several
other search engines. It also features Mamma's Collection, a pay for review
service.
#23
Dogpile
Total Alexa Visits: 314,171 (#18 -9.1%)
Search Area: http://www.dogpile.com
Site Submit Area: N/A, a meta
search engine.
Notes: Dogpile searches the web, including Yahoo!, Thunderstone, Lycos, A2Z,
Goto.com, About (aka The Mining Company and Sprinks), Excite Guide, What U
Seek, Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, Infoseek, Excite & AltaVista. It is
also handy for searching the newsgroups both current posts and archives. Currently
it first returns the results of GoTo, LookSmart, then FindWhat.
#24
Rediff
Total Alexa Visits: 296,309 (#32 +313%)
Search Area: http://www.rediff.com
Site Submit Area: N/A no
free submit area.
Notes: A search engine from India. The US
version is here http://www.rediff.com/rediffus.htm
#25
Search.com
Total Alexa Visits: 294,834 (#25 +38.2%)
Search Area: http://www.search.com
Site Submit Area: N/A, it
is now a meta search engine.
Notes: Popularity is in part due to download.com which contains a vast shareware
library. Search results come from GoTo, FindWhat, About and mostly paid sources.
#26
Webcrawler
Total Alexa Visits: 282,825 (#19 -7.5%)
Search Area: http://www.webcrawler.com
Page Submit Area: http://www.webcrawler.com/info/add_url/
Notes: This search engine is owned by Excite and appears to be a smaller version
of the Excite index. Webcrawler has the same binge and purge characteristics
as Excite. Traffic at this former "top ten" search engine continues
to fall in popularity. There is a form to fill out to submit your site that
is identical to Excite's.
#27
Bay9.com
Total Alexa Visits: 264,456 (#44 +892.2%)
Search Area: http://www.bay9.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.rocketlinks.com/cgi-local/step1.cgi?status=newuser&link=
Notes: Formerly known as Rocketlinks, it is a paid search engine where positioning
is bid upon. Back up search results come from Google.
#28
Search a Lot
Total Alexa Visits: 220,977 (#22 -17.1%)
Search Area: http://www.searchalot.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.searchalot.com/addurl.htm
Notes: A meta search engine that brings back top results from several large
search engines. Powered by mamma.com. To be listed using the link above, they
ask that you post a reciprocal link to them.
#29
Direct Hit
Total Alexa Visits: 173,393 (#27 -11.6%)
Search Area: http://www.directhit.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.directhit.com/util/addurl.html
Notes: Direct Hit promises more accurate results the 1st time, seems like many
people agree. They require an url, email and five or six keywords to submit.
It's a "popularity" search engine where the results displayed are
based on "actual search activity" and topics that other people have
researched. Sites that people visit and "spend time at" for particular
search topics are then ranked higher than other sites. This technology has
been applied to several of the largest search engines and you can expect it
to grow in the future. Several sources have reported "better" positioning
when you submit your site directly to Direct Hit's add url link. Direct Hit
is owned by Ask Jeeves.
#30
ePilot
Total Alexa Visits: 172,663 (#26 -14.9%)
Search Area: http://www.epilot.com
Site Submit Area: n/a
Notes: Another meta search engine getting its results from the usual paid sources.
Very poor interface for Netscape users.
#31
Canada.com
Total Alexa Visits: 151,739 (#30 +58.4%)
Search Area: http://www.canada.com
Site Submit Area: offline
Notes: Canadian search engine that was using Inktomi results. Now it is a meta
search engine with results coming from Goto, LookSmart, FindWhat, Sprinks and
the usual paid sources.
#32
7search
Total Alexa Visits: 105,961 (#37 +209.4%)
Search Area: http://www.7search.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.7search.com/scripts/advertiser/submit_1.asp
Notes: Paid and free listings. Paid listings come up first. Free listing positioning
depends on the age of the page and popularity. Updating your listing requires
filling out a large form.
#33
FindWhat
Total Alexa Visits: 93,525 (#41 +197.2%)
Search Area: http://www.findwhat.com
Site Submit Area: Paid engine,
no free submit area.
Notes: FindWhat listings are currently appearing on Excite and many meta search
services. It is a paid service with a bidding system in place. Open an account
and you can bid on keywords and key phrases within search results. You have
complete control over how much you want to spend, where you want to be found,
and when you want your program to be active. You pay only for click throughs.
Back up search results come from Inktomi.
#34
Anzwers
Total Alexa Visits: 54,434 (#35 +10.3%)
Search Area: http://www.anzwers.com.au
Site Submit Area: http://www.anzwers.com
.au/cgi-bin/print_addurl.pl?
Notes: Australian Inktomi powered search engine. By submitting here you are
also submitting to the main Inktomi index. Search results may be different
than those provided by Inktomi, depending on the way that Anzwers.com has set
up the engine to respond to search queries.
#35
WhoWhere
Total Alexa Visits: 49,640 (#31 -39.7%)
Search Area: http://www.whowhere.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.whowhere.com/AddUpdate
Notes: Owned by Lycos, a people and company email directory/finder, also does
web searches. It will allow you to add a personal home page to the directory.
#36
Fireball
Total Alexa Visits: 45,838 (#40 +41.5%)
Search Area: http://www.fireball.de
Site Submit Area: http://www.fireball.de/url_melden.html
Notes: German search engine powered by AltaVista. Search in a variety of languages.
#37
Go2net.com
Total Alexa Visits: 40,122 (#33 -41.6%)
Search Area: http://www.go2net.com
Site Submit Area: No submit
area.
Notes: This is a meta search engine. It has no local database. It operates
entirely by querying other search engines including AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek,
LookSmart, Lycos, About (aka The Mining Co), Thunderstone, Webcrawler, Yahoo!.
But what is nice about this meta crawler, is that it then collates and assigns
a score based upon what it finds in the other search engines.
#38
Kanoodle
Total Alexa Visits: 39,896 (#43 +41.4%)
Search Area: http://www.kanoodle.com
Site Submit Area: Paid listings https://safe.kanoodle.com/client_services/listings/.
Notes: They provide bid-for-location system - in other words - it is a paid
search engine, where you bid on keywords and phrases. Back up search results
come from a meta search.
#39
All Business
Total Alexa Visits: 36,445 (#63 +642.6%)
Search Area: http://www.allbusiness.com
or http://www.comfind.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.allbusiness.com/comregistration/register.jsp
Notes: Formerly known as ComFind, it is a good global business directory that
was once quite popular. You are required to provide a lot of info in order
to submit your site.
#40
Euroseek
Total Alexa Visits: 35,101 (#34 -30.8%)
Search Area: http://www.euroseek.net
Site Submit Area: offline
Notes: A multi language European search engine. Previously, only an url was
required to submit your page. Currently the submit area is offline even though
their spider continues to crawl the web.
#41
Scrub the Web
Total Alexa Visits: 27,558 (#52 +178%)
Search Area: http://www.scrubtheweb.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.
html
Notes: A search engine that requires only the url and a valid email address
to submit. It verifies the email address by sending a message. If the email
bounces back, it will purge your listing.
#42
Galaxy
Total Alexa Visits: 24,433 (#46 -2.9%)
Search Area: http://www.einet.net
Site Submit Area: http://www.einet.net/cgi-bi
n/annotate?/galaxy
Notes: One of the oldest directories. An editor manually reviews all submissions.
There is a non refundable $25.00 fee to get a guaranteed review.
#43
Euroferret / WebTop
Total Alexa Visits: 24,352 (#53 +150.7%)
Search Area: http://www.euroferret.com
or http://www.webtop.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.webtop.com/search/vanilla/addurl.html
Notes: Euroferret has been rescued by the American search engine WebTop.com.
It is now a multi language search engine where you can restrict searches by
domain addresses such as only .fr or .com. There are three ways to search;
type in what you're looking for, copy and paste, or drag and drop. The submit
area is still at Euroferret but now you can add .com addresses.
#44
Real Names
Total Alexa Visits: 23,103 (#24 -89.6%)
Search Area: http://www.realnames.com
Site Submit Area: Use the
URL above to go to the Real Names home page, and click on the subscribe to
Real Names button.
Notes: Getting into the real names directory costs about $100.00 a year. Is
it worth it? Yes, if you have a keyword phrase that is searched for often enough.The
search results are very targeted and some big search engines have added this
technology. Microsoft has purchased a large interest in this technology and
will be adding it to its Explorer browser in the near future.
#45
ProFusion
Total Alexa Visits: 21,817 (#38 -34.9%)
Search Area: http://www.profusion.com
Site Submit Area: No free
submit area.
Notes: A good meta search tool powered by Intelliseek. It features paid search
results from GoTo and LookSmart, then returns free listings sorted by relevancy
from Alta Vista, MSN, Yahoo, LookSmart, Fast and more.
#46
Oingo Search Engine
Total Alexa Visits: 20,560 (#48 +20.6%)
Search Area: http://www.oingo.com
Site Submit Area: Use Open
Directory
Notes: A search technology that applies the meanings of words in a semantic
network. They have applied their search engine technology to the Open Directory,
submit your site there.
#47
Network Solutions
Total Alexa Visits: 18,714 (#51 +45.6%)
Search Area: http://www.dotcomdirectory.com
Page Submit Area: http://www.dotcomdirectory.com/nsi/getlisted.html
Notes: This is the Network Solutions "Find It" engine. Use the directory
to find companies, get news, financial information and more. Your domain name
must be reserved or registered through Network Solutions, or one of their affiliates
to get listed here.
#48
WebZone
Total Alexa Visits: 16,189 (#58 +141.8%)
Search Area: http://www.webzone.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.webzone.com/isn/addurl.html
Notes: Formerly InfoHiway, is it a directory requiring a large form to be filled
out.
#49
4anything
Total Alexa Visits: 15,610 (#36 -68.2%)
Search Area: http://www.4anything.com
Site Submit Area: no submit
area.
#50
Ah-ha
Total Alexa Visits: 14,232 (#47 -25.9%)
Search Area: http://ah-ha.com
Site Submit Area: http://ah-ha.com/addurl/
Notes: Requires a short form to be filled out for submission. Related web sites
powered by Fast.no (all the web).
#51
Magellan
Total Alexa Visits: 13,689 (#49 -17.4%)
Search Area: http://magellan.mckinley.com
Page Submit Area: http://magellan.excite.com/info/add_url/
Notes: Owned by Excite, search results are similar to Excite and Webcrawler.
The page submit area is frequently offline for extended periods. Once upon
a time, it was a large and popular search engine.
#52
Searchopolis
Total Alexa Visits: 12,699 (#39 -61.8%)
Search Area: http://www.searchopolis.com
Site Submit Area: No submit
area.
Notes: Search results come from Inktomi with unique filtering by N2H2.
#53
ICQ IT
Total Alexa Visits: 10,192 (#28 -94.4%)
Search Area: http://www.icqit.com
Site Submit Area: N/A
Notes: They used to be powered by Inktomi and even had a submit area. They
have given this up and have switched to the Open Directory.
#54
Jayde
Total Alexa Visits: 9,600 (#60 +78%)
Search Area: http://www.jayde.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.jayde.com/cgi-bin/addu
rl.cgi
Notes: An online directory requiring submitters to provide site name, description,
category, url, email and contact person's name.
#55
Buyer's Index
Total Alexa Visits: 9,370 (#57 +32.6%)
Search Area: http://www.buyersindex.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.BuyersIndex.com/wlhl.htm
Notes: Only lists sites that sell products directly to a nationwide or worldwide
market. Requires submitters to fill out a very large, detailed, application
form.
#56
Starting Point
Total Alexa Visits: 9,215 (#50 -42.6%)
Search Area: http://www.stpt.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.stpt.com/submit/submit.asp
Notes: Requires a huge online form to be filled out, including your name, company,
url, keywords, description and a dozen more fields. Searches results are from
Goto.
#57
Search Hound
Total Alexa Visits: 9,115 (#61 -10.3%)
Search Area: http://www.searchhound.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.searchhound.com/Pages/submit.htm
Notes: Lets you decide how your site will be indexed either paid or free. Requires
site title, keywords and description in addition to the usual fields. Search
results feature paid listings from Search Hound and other sites.
#58
BIGwhat?
Total Alexa Visits: 8,120 (#71 +539.9%)
Search Area: http://www.bigwhat.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.bigwhat.com/htmldocs/addurl.htm
Notes: BIGwhat.com has a new revised site as of September 2000, your choice
of free or paid bid listings.
#59
What-U-Seek
Total Alexa Visits: 7,764 (#56 +4.6%)
Search Area: http://www.whatuseek.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.whatUseek.com/addurl.shtml
Notes: A search engine that requires url, email and category. They appear to
be more interested in selling their search technology than in being an actual
search engine.
#60
National Directory
Total Alexa Visits: 7,682 (#65 +128.8%)
Search Area: http://www.nationaldirectory.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.nationaldirectory.com/addurl.html
Notes: A search engine with advanced anti-spamming filters and enhanced dead
link removal. Both of these features allow for high quality search results.
Only the home page can be submitted here.
#61
USA Online
Total Alexa Visits: 6,634 (#59 -.03%)
Search Area: http://www.usaol.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.usaol.com/freeLink.html
Notes: A medium sized application form is required by this directory.
#62
Search King
Total Alexa Visits: 5,629 (#69 +200.5%)
Search Area: http://www.searchking.com/index.htm
Site Submit Area: http://www.searchking.com/add.htm
Notes: Search King is a search engine that promises to do a very good job with
your keyword searches. It tries to remove all duplicates from its index. Requires
the usual directory fields to be filled in, email, site title, url, description
and keywords.
#63
TopClick
Total Alexa Visits: 5,357 (#67 +74.3%)
Search Area: http://www.topclick.com
Site Submit Area: No submit
area
Notes: Search results come from GoTo. TopClick does not use cookies or other
profiling technologies, display banner advertising, or disclose any personal
information about their customers to third parties.
#64
SimpleSearch
Total Alexa Visits: 4,670 (#62 -14.5%)
Search Area: http://www.simplesearch.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.simplesearch.com/addurl/index.shtml
Notes: Paid listings come up first, followed by Direct Hit results. Requires
a short form to be filled out for url, email address and up to 20 keyword phrases.
SimpleSearch (in conjunction with Direct
Hit) rankings are based on actual search activity.
#65
SurfPoint
Total Alexa Visits: 4,652 (#68 +81.6%)
Search Area: http://www.surfpoint.com
Site Submit Area: N/A
Notes: A free listing in this directory is part of the link exchange banner
network. To join, you display banners for members of the network, and they
in turn display banners for you.
#66
BizWeb
Total Alexa Visits: 4,096 (#64 -10.8%)
Search Area: http://www.bizweb.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.bizweb.com/InfoForm/
Notes: A directory that claims to be the business guide to the web. There is
a very long form to be filled out.
#67
The Net One
Total Alexa Visits: 2,773 (#66 -12.4%)
Search Area: http://www.thenetone.com/search/
Site Submit Area: http://www.thenetone.com/netone/advertise.htm
Notes: Free and paid listings? The free listings appear to have vanished and
there were plenty of broken links to be found. Uses GoTo as a backup.
#68
Thunderstone
Total Alexa Visits: 2,474 (#42 -92.1%)
Search Area: http://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch/
Site Submit Area: http://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch/modify.htm
Notes: This one is a little tricky to "submit" to. You MUST be able
to receive email as "webmaster@yourdomainname.com". You will then
be sent an email with a password that will allow you to change your profile,
make changes and add categories to search results. Worth it if you can work
through it, as Thunderstone results are used by several of the meta search
engines.
#69
QuestFinder
Total Alexa Visits: 2,312 (#70 +75.7%)
Search Area: http://www.questfinder.com
Page Submit Area: http://questfinder.c
om/search/s-ctm.cgi?s-addurl.ctm
Notes: A small directory with a large form to fill out. A password is required
to edit your site info later.
#70
PeekABoo
Total Alexa Visits: 953 (#75 +14.1%)
Search Area: http://peekaboo.net
Site Submit Area: http://www.peekaboo.net/index1.html
Notes: Will link to you within 72 hours if you link to them first. Long form
to fill out.
#71
What's Nu
Total Alexa Visits: 862 (#74 -2.3%)
Search Area: http://www.whatsnu.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.whatsnu.com/cgi-bin/addlink.cgi
Notes: Requires the usual directory fields to be filled out. Sends a confirmation
email with a password so you can edit your site description later.
#72
Nerd World Media
Total Alexa Visits: 459 (#55 -93.9%)
Search Area: http://www.nerdworld.com
Site Submit Area: http://www.nerdworld.com/nwadd.html
Notes: A directory requiring submitters to fill out a huge form.
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