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Although there are thousands of Search Engines on the Internet, there are some that stand out as being considered "major" Search Engines or Directories. In order to make an educated decision as to which Search Engines or Directories to optimize for, we've created a brief abstract about a few of our client's favorites that you may use as a reference guide. Of course, our experts at InTheTopThirty.com are always available for consultation on which Search Engines or Directories are best suited to optimize for, for your type of business. |
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Google has definitely been making a name for itself lately. Named after the numerical anomaly of a one followed by a hundred zeros, Google is quickly on its way to successfully listing as many sites within their database. Recently acquiring its most prestigious client to date, Yahoo! Search Directory's Web page listings, they pride themselves in being the fastest growing search engine on the Internet both in data and in popularity. The relatively plain and simple interface design illustrates their philosophy of providing clear, relevant search results without all the unwanted clutter they claim their competitors deliver. Google in the News: Yahoo!
Selects Google as its Default Search Engine Provider Going
ga-ga for Google Handspring
Integrates Google's Award-Winning Search Engine with Blazer Web Browser Google
Achieves Significant Business, Growth Milestones in 2000 Google
Sweeps Search Engine Watch Awards AltaVista has undergone reconstruction in the last several months and along with those changes, now offers what they deem a "multi-dimensional search" capability provided by AltaVista's own Raging Search (www.raging.com). Raging Search technology sorts through their index to find exactly the pages AltaVista's visitors want. There are many ways to judge whether a Web page is relevant to a user's query, and Raging Search combines many different factors to find the best matches, including text relevance and link analysis. AltaVista has added a vast array of products and services to its repertoire, hoping to add value to its users' overall experience and stay competitive in the search engine arena. AltaVista in the News: AltaVista:
Profits, Full Speed Ahead! AltaVista
Goes Back to the Basics Altavista
Expands Search Platform, Language Support for E-Commerce Sites AltaVista
Cuts Jobs, Drops Media Business AltaVista
Adds NYTIMES.COM to News Search Service AOL Search combines many sources of information make a more complete and comprehensive experience for its users. America OnLine Search uses the Open Directory Project as its backbone; however, in addition to the ODP, AOL scours the rest of the Internet and adds thousands of additional sites. AOL Search quickly and thoroughly searches the full text of over 150 million pages on AOL and the rest of the web. The main listings for categories and web sites come from the Open Directory. Inktomi search technology also provides crawler-based results, as backup to the directory information. Before the launch of AOL Search in October 1999, the AOL search service was Excite-powered AOL NetFind. AOL in the News: AOL
Member Spending Doubles Pay-for-placement
search site inks deal with AOL Record-Breaking
Holiday Boosts AOL Membership |
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About.com
The About network consists of over 700 Guide sites
neatly organized into 36 channels. The sites cover more than 50,000
subjects with over 1 million links to the best resources on the Net.
(From the company web site... ) "In February
of 1997, Scott Kurnit and a dedicated team launched The Mining Company,
the first information network to integrate the Internet's most productive
agent - people. The company quickly grew in size and scale and in
1999 the company was renamed About, to reflect its breadth of content,
services and ease of use. Today, About is visited by one in five online
users each month, making it one of the most popular destinations on
the Net." About,
Inc. Spawns Powerful Entrant into the B2B Market - ABZ, Inc. Hotjobs.Com Enters
Into New Agreement, Deepening Relationship With About, Inc. About Is
The 7th Largest Web Property With Third Consecutive Month Of Double
Digit Growth
About Press Release About
Launches Services for Australia, Ireland, and India LookSmart LookSmart
Ranked #1 in Network Reach by Jupiter Media Metrix LookSmart
Announces LookListings: The First Complete Search Listings Solution PriceGrabber.com
Distributes Comparison Shopping Links on Major Portals Using LookSmart
Subsite Listings
LookSmart Press Release Yahoo! Search Directory is one of the most widely used of all Web search tools. Yahoo! is an attempt to organize and catalog the Web through the use of human editors who personally review each site which is submitted. Creative Approaches will go through the process of manually submitting your site for review to Yahoo! as well as help you choose a category to which is suitable to submit your site. Yahoo! uses categories to organize its Web Site results. Most often a search on Yahoo! brings both Web Site results and Web Page results. The Web Site results are suggestions made by the many editors gathering data, and the Web Page results are supplied by Google, which recently replaced Inktomi as Yahoo!'s database and search technology provider. Yahoo! in the News: Yahoo! Presents Yahoo! Broadcast
Yahoo! Press Release Yahoo!
Expands Search for Business Users Timex
and Yahoo! Everywhere Bring the Internet to Your Wrist Yahoo!
Removes Adult-Related Merchandise from Network
ODP in the News: Humans
Do It Better: Inside the Open Directory Project Ask
Jeeves Taps Into Netscape's Directory Technology Inside
the Open Directory Open
Directory Project: Pyramid Power Others If you have
a favorite Search Engine that you would like to know more about, please
ask the experts at InTheTop30.com!
We would be more than happy to discuss with you how to choose the Search
Engines that are more likely to reach your potential web customers. |
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