Search Engines
and Directories

70 search engines are listed in Alphabetic Order.
The 25 important ones are headlined in Bold -
In most cases the submit page is listed.
It is a moot point whether it is worthwhile
to submit to the others.

http://www.ah-ha.com/
Based in Provo, Utah

AllTheWeb
http://www.alltheweb.com
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php
- clear and uncluttered, also called Fast Search
also searches images, audio and video.

AltaVista
http://www.altavista.co.uk/
Also has Babelfish translator which may be useful to you
http://uk.altavista.com/addurl
- basic submissions are listed in 4-6 weeks
You can pay for a better service
You now have to interpret and key in a comic submission code in order to enter up to five URLs.
Is a good Portal.

http://www.ananzi.co.za/
- for South Africa

http://www.askalex.co.uk
- uk directory

Ask Jeeves submit for a fee. But takes input from Google.

http://search.aol.com/
Uses DMOZ service

http://www.britishinformation.com - UK specific directory

http://www.comfind.com/
- The All Business Directory

http://www.completeplanet.com/
- a useful start for all searches

http://www.c4.com/
Meta search - cannot submit

http://cnet.com/
Meta-search, cannot submit

DMOZ - The Open Directory Project
http://dmoz.org
http://dmoz.org/add.html
- ODP is used on several search engines including
AOL Search, AltaVista, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search
It might be worth paying for fast submission here.

http://www.entireweb.com/
http://www.entireweb.com/addurl.html

http://www.excite.co.uk/
Is a portal with a search. Cannot submit.

http://www.findwhat.com/
No submit. Can bid for advertising on keywords

http://www.findlink.com/
Cannot submit

http://www.galaxy.com/
Submission for a fee.

http://www.gigablast.com

http://www.go.com/
Cannot submit
- owned by Disney, entertainment orientation
- has a nice quote of the day

http://www.goto.com/
Submit for a fee or per click-through for specified keywords
top three listed links are displayed on partner search engines

Google
http://www.google.com/
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
- best by far for me.
Evaluates site popularity by checking number of referrals
Has taken over Deja.com database for newsgroups

UnGoogle
http://www.ungoogle.com/ - new one.

http://www.gowebsurfer.com/
Cannot submit

Hotbot
http://www.hotbot.com/
http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp

http://www.ifind.com - uses All-the-Web or UKPlus

www.infohiway.com/ - see www.webzone.com Webzone.

Infospace see Thompsons Directory

Inktomi
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/catalog/searchsubmit/index.jhtml
Not a search engine, but a database for other search engines. This product submits you to the Inktomi database in 2 days at a cost of $30 and makes you accessible to AOL, MSN, iWon, Looksmart etc. You cannot submit direct to Inktomi, only through one of their partners of whom Network Solutions is one.
http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm - may do Intomi for free.

http://www.internet-directory.co.uk/
- Travel and Entertainment - Whats New

http://www.iwon.com/
http://search.iwon.com/commerce/submitasite.jsp
- for a fee only. Plus a lottery for Americans!
but always seems slow from here.

http://www.jayde.com/
http://www.jayde.com/cgi-bin/addurl.cgi

http://www.khoj.com/
- India

http://www.links2go.com/
Uses artificial intelligence to help you find the answer

http://www.local-2.com - a growing local search engine

Lycos
http://www.lycos.co.uk/
http://www.lycos.co.uk/service/addasite.html
Is a good Portal.
Has dog in the adverts which must be good.
Excellent for shopping.

Looksmart
http://www.looksmart.co.uk
http://submit.looksmart.co.uk/
Listings are used on many partner search engines
For a fee only. Can pay $99 to be listed within two days

http://www.mamma.com/
Meta-search - cannot submit

http://mamma.whatuseek.com/
Has a fee based submission option which is said to be good. $29-$59

http://www.metacrawler.com/
Meta-search - cannot submit

Mirago
http://www.mirago.co.uk
http://www.mirago.com/regions/default.asp
- UK aspects of life

http://www.multimeta.com/

http://www.nationaldirectory.com/ - US

NBCi Directory
http://www.nbci.com/
Cannot see how to submit

Netscape
http://www.netscape.com
http://register-it.netscape.com/addurl.cgi
Option to go to Website Garage with a long sign-in
Is the default page for Netscape browsers.
Is a good Portal.

Northern Light
http://northernlight.com
http://northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html
Popular for serious research

http://www.overture.com/
for a fee.

Open Directory - see Dmoz

http://www.qango.com/ - Directory
http://www.qango.com/or/addurl.html A directory - choose your category

http://web.realnames.com/
You can pay for a keyword - search on the keyword of your choice.

Scoot Directory
http://www.scoot.co.uk
- UK's leading business directory

http://www.scrubtheweb.com/
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html

www.search.com - see CNET

http://www.searchking.com/
http://www.searchking.com/add_main.htm
US oriented

http://www.searchit.com
Music searches - cannot submit

http://www.searchhound.com
https://www.searchhound.com/submit/
Has a compulsory registration

Search MSN
http://search.msn.com/
uses Looksmart (for a fee submission)
The default page for Internet Explorer Browsers
Is a good Portal

http://www.searchnz.co.nz/ - New Zealand

SearchUK
http://www.searchuk.com
http://url.searchengine.com/index.cgi

www.snap.com - see NBCi

http://www.sprinks.com
uses Direct Hit - cannot submit

http://www.stpt.com/
http://www.stpt.com/submit/submit.asp
Starting Point

http://www.sunsteam.com/
http://www.sunsteam.com/add_your_site.html
For a fee

Teoma
http://www.teoma.com/
Used to be Direct Hit. Submission for a fee
Associated with Ask Jeeves

Thompsons Directory
http://www.infospace.com/uk.thomw/
- Thomnpson Directories Business

http://www.ukindex.co.uk/
http://www.ukindex.co.uk/urlreg.htm
have to sign on for some reason

UKPlus
http://ukplus.co.uk/
http://ukplus.co.uk/ukplus/SilverStream/Pages/pgNewSite.html

WhatUSeek
http://www.whatuseek.com/
http://www.whatuseek.com/addurl.shtml
For a fee.

Webcrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com
http://www.webcrawler.com/info/add_url/
for a fee only

http://www.whatsnew.com
Travel search tool

Yahoo Directory
http://uk.yahoo.com
The most popular search tool, has human editors
Also uses Google Search Engine.
Is a good Portal.
Can pay $199 for fast submission
Can also pay to be a sponsored site in chosen category.

Yellow Pages Directory
http://www.yell.co.uk/

About.com
http://www.about.com
Offers guides which give links - cannot submit

Ask Jeeves - Meta-search
http://www.ask.co.uk/
- best when you want information, type in a meaningful request
Meta-search - cannot submit
Can pay for advertisements

Encyclopedia Britannica - Reference
http://www.ebig.com/
- the first place for content

Argus Clearing House
http://www.clearinghouse.net - reference

Ditto Images
http://www.ditto.com/
- the search engine for images

Xrefer Reference
http://www.xrefer.com - Reference
Reference to everything

Google
http://www.google.com Apparently 46% of webs searchers start here. With many different specialist areas like images, and newsgroups; and a News search is being tested.
Includes suggestions if you spell something wrong.
Has a translate button which sometimes renders a useful view into foreign language sites.
Sponsored websites are displayed on the right as a separate list.
If the site is currently not available then click the cache link and you can still see it. It is very easy to include a Google search box on your website with an option to search just your personal site, or the whole of www ( I have it on my Goring homepage now).

Search Engine Health Warning
The rules change all the time; these words may not be accurate today.
It takes a long time for the Search Engines to wake up to your website, and even then you are unlikely to be in the top 20 references. Do not rely on the search engines for your sole marketing; treat it as an added bonus if they list you at all.

META Statements
Excite and Lycos ignore META statements. The rest seem to like them. They all want good title statements, and will read the first words of text that they find in the HTML code.

Paying for Listing
People are going off sites that give priority to people who have paid. What they want is information relevant to their immediate needs. Paying Dmoz for a faster check by the humans may be worthwhile, but then there is no guarantee that they will like you.

Automated Submission
There are a number of companies which will submit to all or some of the search engines monthly either free or for a fee. We have the impression that most search engines will give lower priority to these submissions. And some have taken steps to discourage automated submission since so many of the sites submitted are 404's and have either moved or discontinued.

Portal Sites
Several search engines have included news, weather, entertainment listings etc and are good for use as a portal to go first when you sign on.

Checking
Opinion is divided as to whether you should resubmit your URL to a search engine when it is already present. It probably does no harm and may do some good, particularly if you have made some changes. You can check by search on keywords, or search on a full URL which is http://www.waller.co.uk and in some cases you need not quote the first parts.
You can sometimes try:
Check if listed: search on url:waller.co.uk (or whatever)
Check who is linking to you link:www.waller.co.uk

Deleting Pages
Resubmit the URLs of the pages to be deleted and the robot will look and find the 404 message and delete the reference. InfoSeek invites you to send them an Email if there are several.

More information

http://www.searchenginewatch.com
Note: the best up-to-date information is available if you subscribe.

http://www.searchenginebase.com/
- is a much longer list than this with hints and tips.

http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
- directory of search engines worldwide

http://www.payperclicksearchengines.com/
A guide to all the Pay to be listed or Pay-per-click engines.

http://www.selfpromotion.com
- an excellent source of advice on how to succeed.

http://www.keyworddensity.com/
- how often your chosen keywords are requested.

http://www.cre8pc.com/
- a good website for advice and guidance.

http://www.apromotionguide.com/ - a useful guide to promotion.