Search Engines List for Positioning

* AltaVista Search Engine

Alta Vista is a search engine that uses many sources to produce its results. These sources include Looksmart, the Open Directory, Real Names, and its own web-crawling spider.

Alta Vista does not provide a directory option, but does offer a LookSmart search from the bottom of each page.

The following search engines or directories provide content to AltaVista: Looksmart, Overture.
The following search engines receive content from AltaVista: None

AltaVista has search index interfaces for the following countries: Australia (.au), Austria (.at), Belgium (.be), Brazil (.br), Canada (.ca), Denmark (.dk), Finland (.fi), France (.fr), Germany (.de), India (.in), Ireland (.ie), Italy (.it), Korea (.kr), New Zealand (.nz), Netherlands (.nl), Norway (.no), Portugal (.pt), Spain (.es), Sweden (.se), Switzerland (.ch), and the United Kingdon (.uk).

* AOL Search

AOL Search - AOL is a search engine that uses multiple to produce its results. AOL's webindex results are provided by Google.

AOL uses it's own algorithm to resequence the Google results. AOL will sometimes insert one or two top results from their private files, then presents the re-sequenced Google results.

The following search engines or directories provide content to AOL: Google
The following search engines receive content from AOL: None

* All The Web / Fast Search

All The Web - powered by Fast Search that reportedly has one of the largest search engine database. AllTheWeb is the fastest search engine with an average response time under half a second per search.

The following search engines or directories provide content to All The Web: Overture
The following search engines receive content from Fast: Lycos Search

* Ask Jeeves/Teoma Search Engines

Ask Jeeves - Ask Jeeves is example of a search engine that answers questions. When a user enters a search term (or question), Ask Jeeves responds with possible questions that the user can ask followed by traditional search engine results. If the user then selects the question that he/she wants answered, Ask Jeeves then returns sites that answer that question.

The following search engines or directories provide content to Ask Jeeves: Teoma, Google
The following search engines receive content from Ask Jeeves: None

* Open Directory/ Dmoz

The Open Directory - The Open Directory is a human edited directory, meaning that all sites listed in the directory are reviewed by human editors. How you rank is based upon a secret formula that only the Colonel knows. Since this human edited inclusion into this search engine takes more than 8 weeks. Once there, it may take additional time for the listing to be used by sites using odp data.

The following search engines or directories provide content to The Open Directory: None
The following search engines receive content from The Open Directory (sites using odp data): AllTheWeb, Google, AltaVista, HotBot ,Lycos, Netscape

* Excite Search Engine

Excite Search Engine - results are produced from Overture, although apparently not entirely in a bid-sequence. It appears that the top 15 results are in the Overture sequence, and that those in position 16 and higher appear to be additional Overture results except sorted by relevance instead of bid.

The following search engines or directories provide content to Excite: Overture, Inktomi, Fast Search, AskJeeves, Looksmart.
The following search engines receive content from Excite: Magellan, WebCrawler

* Go Search Engine

Go Search Engine - gives only Pay-per-click (PPC) search engine results. Go provides the primary results from the Overture Pay-per-click (PPC) index, which is maintained by owners bidding on their ranking (see Overture).

* Google

Google - is a search engine that maintains its own spider based index. Google also has a directory that is powered by the Open Directory; however, the sites within the directory are ranked according to Google's link popularity technology.

The following search engines or directories provide content to Google: Open Directory
The following search engines receive content from Google: Netscape, Yahoo, AOL Sponsored Listings

* Hotbot Search Engine

Hotbot Search Engine Lycos, the owners of Hotbot, are expected to transform HotBot over the next few months to also use FAST results. Until then, HotBot receives its information from four major sources. Hotbot receives Sponsored listings from Overture. HotBot receives its "Category Results" from the Open Directory. If available, the first page of HotBot "Web Matches" are provided by Direct Hit, which ranks pages based on popularity. The rest of the "Web Matches" are then provided by Inktomi.

The following search engines or directories provide content to HotBot: Direct Hit, Inktomi, Open Directory, Overture
The following search engines receive content from Hotbot: None

* Inktomi Search Engine

Inktomi Company - Inktomi is a search engine data base is used to power other search engines. You can view Inktomi's results at any of their parnters sites.

The following search engines or directories receive content from Inktomi: AOL, Overture, HotBot IWon, LookSmart, MSN .

* Iwon Search Engine

IWon - is a search engine that is powered by a variety of sources. IWon is reporting a great many top positions from Overture where the URL is associated with paid positioning.

The following search engines or directories provide content to IWon: Google Looksmart Overture The following search engines receive content from IWon: none

* Looksmart Web Directory

Looksmart - is a web directory that charges a fee for site submission, and a Pay-per-Click rate. For $49 (prices may vary over time), you are guaranteed to have your site reviewed and (if appropriate) placed in Looksmart within 48 hours. There is also a need to pre-pay $149 for 100 clicks per month for 10 months, refundable if you cancel.

The following search engines receive content from Looksmart: Altavista, Excite, MSN

* Lycos Search Engine

Lycos - receives their web results from a variety of sources. Overture provides the Sponsored entries. The results from the "Popular" section of Lycos come primarily from the Lycos web editors, and secondarily from Direct Hit. In the "Web Sites" section, results come from the Open Directory, Fast Search, and the Lycos web crawler. The Open Directory powers the category links at the top of the "Web Sites" section, and also provides some web site matches.

The following search engines or directories provide content to Lycos: Fast Search, Open Directory, Overture
The following search engines receive content from Lycos: none

* MSN Search Engine

MSN Search - receives its search results from a variety of sources. The "Featured Sites" section results are provided by MSN's sponsors. The results in the "Web Directory Topics" and "Web Directory Sites" sections come from Looksmart, MSN's primary provider. To get a top ranking you need to participate in the LookSmart pay-per-click program, so submission occurs at Looksmart. In some cases LookSmart does not have sufficient results, so Inktomi "Web Pages" results follow and thus your "free" indexed entries may rank well. At the top of the "Web Directory Sites" section, you can click on a link to view the 10 most popular sites provided by Direct Hit. The "Web Pages" section is provided by Inktomi.

The following search engines or directories provide content to MSN: Direct Hit, Looksmart, Inktomi Overture The following search engines receive content from MSN: None

* Netscape Search Engine

Netscape Search Engine - receives it primary search results from Google. The sponsored section is provided by Overture. The Open Directory provides the results for Netscape's "Web Sites Categories" and "Reviewed Web Sites." If the Open Directory provides the "Reviewed Web Sites" section, you can still view Google results by simply clicking on the "Search Again using Google" link in the left hand column.

The following search engines or directories provide content to Netscape: Google, Open Directory, Overture
The following search engines receive content from Netscape: None

* Overture Search Engine

Overture - is a search engine that auctions its rankings. In other words, the more you pay per click (PPC) on your results link, the higher your ranking. For each keyword phrase, advertisers bid against each other for placement within the search results.

The following search engines or directories provide content to Overture: Inktomi
The following search engines receive content from Overture: Ask Jeeves, Go:NetScape, Top 4 HotBot, Lycos Top, IWon, NBCi

* Teoma / Ask Jeeves:

Teoma / Ask Jeeves: - The following search engines or directories provide content to Teoma: Ask Jeeves, Google.
The following search engines receive content from Teoma: Ask Jeeves

* Yahoo

Yahoo - has both a human-edited directory and a spider based index provided by Google. Sponsored results are provided by Overture and appear at the top of the results page and additional entries are presented at the bottom of the page whenever a next page is available.

The following search engines or directories provide content to Yahoo: Google
The following search engines receive content from Yahoo: None