5 search engines you should know about

Google

It was all started as a university project by two students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Now it is called Google (named in 1998, earlier it was called as Backrub) and got reputation of Internet giant in search engine’s world. Almost 60 to 70 % internet surfers use Google to find websites, images, audio, video and all other kind of stuff. So if you are not highly ranked in Google, you are probably missing that 60 to 70 percent internet users.

Any link building campagin is useless if it’s not targetting Google search placement.
Submit your link for free at http://www.google.com/addurl/ 

Yahoo

In addition to excellent search results, you can use yahoo to find images, yellow pages and listing from its directory. In the beginning Yahoo was a web directory but in 2002 it made a gigantic transfer to crawl based search results. It got its own search algorithm which is some where similar to one Google uses for its search results.

Submit to Yahoo (Free and Paid options) at http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

Live

It is a search engine powered by Internet Giant Microsoft. It claims to provide the richer and deeper search results in a single page. One can easily customize the search results to title only, short or longer summary etc and even save searches to get the updated results all the time for the same keywords.

You can submit your website in live at http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx

Ask

Ask Jeeves was a search facility monitored by more than 100 editors to provide users with most relevant and popular answers for their queries. In 2001 ask adopted world’s first click popularity technology. Today it based on Teoma’s unique index and search relevancy technology. It crawl web sites to provide the most relevant results to its users.

Information related to submission to ask.com is available at http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml

Alta Vista

Search results of Alta Vista are powered by Yahoo. So if you are looking something from Yahoo’s indexed websites, with fast browsing facility, Alta Vista is the place to search. It was the first one to provide Images, Audio and Video search capabilities in one search engine.

The URL for including your site in Alta Vista is http://www.altavista.com/addurl/default

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