A guide to search engine services and resources

This section includes a deeper look into search engines, including major players, as well as the smaller engines that produce good, relevant results. (Definition of a search engine: A software program/alogorithm that searches a database and gathers and reports information that contains or is related to specified terms searched for.)

Here is a database of current active search engine robots. Click Here!

Google is by far, one fo the most popular engines out there right now. Its such a standard engine today that most people refer to a search on Google as saying "just Google it". With just under 5 billion pages in the Google index, your bound to find just about anything. Google also features many other options for end users.

-Here is a list of bigger services that Google offers

Answers - Set your price and ask Google a question.
Directory - A directory supplied by dmoz.
Froogle - Do a little shopping on Froogle.
Google News - Check out the latest happenings.

-Google marketing resources

Adwords - Advertise directly through Google.
Adsense - Advertise on your site with Google.
Site Submit - Submit to Google

Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com/
Yahoo is considered the second biggest search engine to date. Recently Yahoo powers over half the searches on the web, coming out with an amazing 260 million users world wide. Launched in 1994, Yahoo is the oldest search directory. At this time, Yahoo uses its own algorithm.


-Some of the services Yahoo offers

Directory - Yahoo Search directory.
Site Submit - Site match, free submit, and directory.
Yahooligans - The web guide for kids.



MSN - http://www.msn.com/
Currently MSN is still used by many. In july MSN decided to remove all paid listings from its index, making the results all spider based except for the top 3 overture listings. On Febuary 1, 2005 MSN released its beta search results. MSN now has their own form of results, which brings much speculation as to wether they need to do more updating.

-Some MSN technologies in the making

Lookout - Search e-mail on your machine.
News Bot - a beta version of MSN news.

-MSN marketing resources

Old Ink Submit - MSN search free submission.

Here is a list of other engines in order by the percent of use.

AOL - http://search.aol.com/
Ask Jeeves - http://www.ask.com/
Netscape - http://search.netscape.com/