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Popular Search Engine Sites

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The Sites

The table below lists the most popular Internet search engine sites at the time of this writing. Click on the name of the site to go there. Click on the Registration URL to go to the site's page where you can submit your URL for indexing.

Site Operated By No. Hits
Per Day 		No. Pages
Indexed 		Indexes
<META>
Tags? 		Registration Link
AltaVistaDigital Equipment Corporation18,000,00030,000,000 Yes Register with AltaVista
InfoSeekInfoSeek Corporation5,000,000N/A Yes Register with InfoSeek
LycosLycos, Inc.N/A50,000,000 No Register with Lycos
ExciteExcite, Inc.N/A50,000,000 No Register with Excite
Yahoo!Yahoo!N/A260,000 No Register with Yahoo!
MagellanThe McKinley Group, Inc.N/A15,000,000 No Register with Magellan
HotBotHotWired, Inktomi, et al.N/A54,000,000 No Register with HotBot
Open Text IndexOpen Text Corporation500,000N/A No Register with Open Text Index
WebCrawlerAmerica Online, Inc.N/AN/A No Register with WebCrawler

Other Guides and Directories

The sites above index every word of every page. Other sites use a different approach: human editors visit and review sites to "rate" the quality. An example of such a site is Point Communications, a subsidiary of Lycos, which distributes those "Top 5% of the Web" badges you may have seen.

Purchasing Exposure

Most of the search engines offer advertising (that's how they make their money). You can get an image with a link to your Web site on any of the search engines above. Expect to pay from $1,000 to $5,000 a month, depending on how many "impressions" (hits) you want to buy.
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