This list functions like a Top 40 music pop chart. It shows the relative popularity of the various search engines. Rather than using the size of the search engine or how many pages it has indexed to determine positioning on this list, it's popularity that matters. After all, what good is a big search engine if no one uses it? I've also included links to each search engine home page and where you can find the submission forms to announce your site. The notes field contains any special information you need to know about submitting to that particular search engine.
Some search engines allow more than one page to be submitted for indexing, others are directories and allow only one page, or the home page to be listed. Just be sure to come armed with your web site descriptions and lists of keywords before attempting to submit your site to the directories.
You will also see the term "Alexa Visits". Alexa is a popular free tool that tracks how many people have visited a site over the past six months, who owns the site, and more. The term "Alexa Visits" indicates the number of Alexa users that had visited a site - its relative popularity - at the time this list was updated.
For example: #1 Google, Total Alexa Visits: 13,525,582 (#5 +366.2%). This indicates that Google is currently the most popular search engine, with over 13 million Alexa visitors. It was in 5th place, and its traffic has increased by more than 366% within the last six months.
Although this method is not completely accurate for popularity, it does show a relative "snapshot" of the all the sites listed below, as they existed at that moment in time.
For sake of comparison, here are a few popular sites and how many Alexa visitors they had.
Microsoft 6,227,773
eBay 5,126,967
Amazon 4,936,211
CNN 1,935,912
AOL 1,830,715
Disney 1,686,874
Netscape 1,476,031
Hotmail 1,180,683
Washington Post 611,732
Apple Computer 399,246
Geocities 327,804
MP3.com 136,232
NFL 130,623
Quote 125,186
#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/ad
d_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.hm
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.