Major Search Engines :
The Major Targetted Search Engines and Directories
Teoma
http://www.teoma.com
Teoma is one of the latest entrant in the search engine scene, and also
one of the few to make it to the top 10 list within months of it’s launch.
AskJeeves in March 2002 bought over Teoma and replaced it with Directhit
as the main data backend of its network.
*Submission Fee: USD 30 for 1st URL
and USD 18 for all the subsequent ones
LookSmart
http://www.looksmart.com
LookSmart is a human-compiled directory
of web sites. In addition to being a stand-alone service, LookSmart
provides directory results to MSN Search, Excite and many other partners.
Inktomi provides LookSmart with search results when a search fails to find
a match from among LookSmart's reviews.
*Submission Fee:
USD 49 Review Fee and 25 Cents per click through
Lycos
http://www.lycos.com
Lycos started out as a search engine,
depending on listings that came from spidering the web. In April 1999, it
shifted to a directory model similar to Yahoo. Its main listings come from
AllTheWeb.com with some results from the Open Directory project. In
October 1998, Lycos acquired the competing HotBot search service, which
continues to be run separately.
*Submission Fee: USD 18 for 1st URL and USD 12 for all the
subsequent ones
MSN Search
http://search.msn.com
Microsoft's MSN Search service is a
LookSmart-powered directory of web sites, with secondary results that come
from Inktomi. Direct Hit data is also made available.
*Submission Fee: Paid submission to Inktomi USD 39 for 1st
URL and USD 25 for all the subsequent ones.
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