Metacrawlers and Search Engine bots

Here are the major search engines that you should submit to.

Google

Google is the most popular search engine, powering Google, AOL and Netscape search.

Google searches over 4 billion Web pages, supports 82 languages and processes more than 200 million searches a day.

Read Google’s own site submission and ranking tips in the Google Information for Webmasters section. Submit your site to Google for free.

Yahoo!

Yahoo! recently introduced its new search engine called, “Yahoo! Search Technology.” It powers Yahoo!, AllTheWeb, AltaVista, and MSN. Yahoo! offer a free site submission program. Expect a delay of several weeks before your URL is crawled.

Ask Jeeves / Teoma
Ask Jeeves is powered by the Teoma search engine. However, neither search engines provide a free submission form. The only method of submitting your Web pages is via their Ask Jeeves Site Submit program.

The submission fees are US$30.00 for the first Web page, and $18.00 for each additional Web page.

The fee guarantees:

inclusion into the database powering Ask Jeeves and Teoma within 7 days
Web pages will be reindexed every 7 days
Web pages stay included in the database for 12 months.
Please note that the Ask Jeeves Site Submit program neither guarantees top rankings, nor a boost in your rankings. The only guarantees are those listed above. Visit the Ask Jeeves Site Submit site for more information.

Web portals

Web portals are sites that provide users with multiple services, including search, email, shopping and other services. Virtually all Web portals use search results provided by other top search engines.

The following table shows the Web portals and its corresponding search engine and web directory partners. Click on a link for more information on the search engine or web directory.

Web Portal Search Engine Web Directory
AOL Google Open Directory Project
MSN Inktomi -
Netscape Google Open Directory Project

Metacrawlers
Metacrawlers search other search engines simultaneously, compile the results, and display them either in groups, sorted by search engine employed, or by clustering them together and eliminating duplicates.

Unlike true search engines, metacrawlers do not crawl the Web themselves to index Web pages.

Because metacrawlers neither crawl and index sites, nor have their own database of sites, they cannot accept site submissions. To get your web site into a metacrawler, submit your Web pages to the search engines or web directories that the metacrawlers search.

The top four metacrawlers are Dogpile, Ixquick, Mamma and MetaCrawler.

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