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Lycos Add URL
- Lycos receives their web results from a variety of sources.
Overture provides the Sponsored entries.
The results from the "Popular" section of Lycos come primarily from the Lycos web editors, and secondarily from Direct Hit.
In the "Web Sites" section, results come from the Open Directory, Fast Search, and the Lycos web crawler.
The Open Directory powers the category links at the top of the "Web Sites" section, and also provides some web site matches.
Below the category links are web site links, which come primarily from Fast Search.
Secondary links are provided by the Lycos web crawler.
Although it is not as significant in the results rankings as it used to be, the Lycos web crawler is still spidering the web.
The Lycos web crawler does not weigh META tags heavily.
Indexing is based on an algorithm that takes a look at components of the URL name, Meta title, text body headings and subheadings, how frequently words appear, where these words appear in relationship to one another, as well as a document abstract (based on full body text).
Any web page that does not have a minimum of 75 words is not indexed but Frames are supported.
Lycos does not care about case sensitivity.
They will not allow special characters in text, so avoid ?, =, and $.
Pages are added in 3 to 6 weeks.
Remember that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Lycos before you register your pages.
Just registering with Lycos does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to Lycos:
The following search engines receive content from Lycos:
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All The Web
- powered by Fast Search that reportedly has one of if not the largest search engine database.
AllTheWeb is the fastest search engine with an average response time under half a second per search.
The Fast spider reads all text that appears on a page.
Fast Search uses a crawler-based technology, thus any submission will lead to a full site being indexed.
AllTheWeb Add URL
- adds to the FAST data base.
AllTheWeb.com is an old fashioned search engine where many spam tricks still work.
If you are not interested in spamming, then this may not be a fair fight.
The search results often contain sites that spam titles with multiple keywords.
In more competitive keyword battles top ranked sites often have long titles compared to other search engines.
Fast does not restrict cloaked pages in the search results, and allows mirror sites.
FAST Search: "[spam is] using techniques to artificially influence a search engine's precision or relevancy.
" More details are available at:
Spam Policy, and
Guidelines. Report Spam: spam@fastsearch.com
Remember that that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Fast before you register your pages.
Just registering with Fast does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to All The Web:
The following search engines receive content from Fast:
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All The Web
- powered by Fast Search that reportedly has one of if not the largest search engine database.
AllTheWeb is the fastest search engine with an average response time under half a second per search.
The Fast spider reads all text that appears on a page.
Fast Search uses a crawler-based technology, thus any submission will lead to a full site being indexed.
AllTheWeb Add URL
- adds to the FAST data base.
AllTheWeb.com is an old fashioned search engine where many spam tricks still work.
If you are not interested in spamming, then this may not be a fair fight.
The search results often contain sites that spam titles with multiple keywords.
In more competitive keyword battles top ranked sites often have long titles compared to other search engines.
Fast does not restrict cloaked pages in the search results, and allows mirror sites.
FAST Search: "[spam is] using techniques to artificially influence a search engine's precision or relevancy."
More details are available at:
Spam Policy, and
Guidelines. Report Spam: spam@fastsearch.com
Remember that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Fast before you register your pages.
Just registering with Fast does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to All The Web:
The following search engines receive content from Fast:
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Netscape Search Engine
- Netscape receives it primary search results from Google.
The sponsored section is provided by Overture.
The Open Directory provides the results for Netscape's "Web Sites Categories" and "Reviewed Web Sites."
If the Open Directory provides the "Reviewed Web Sites" section, you can still view Google results by simply clicking on the "Search Again using Google" link in the left hand column.
You can no longer submit your site to Netscape.
To be listed on Netscape, you must submit your site to Google or the Open Directory.
Remember that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Netscape before you register your pages.
Just registering with Netscape does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to Netscape:
The following search engines receive content from Netscape:
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AOL Search
- AOL is a search engine that uses multiple to produce its results.
AOL's webindex results are provided by Google -- with a twist.
AOL uses Google PPC for the sponsored entries.
AOL does not have an add url page of it's own -- to get listed in AOL you should submit to Google.
In researching results sequencing, the top 25 results from Google do appear as the top 25-ish results in AOL, except in a different order.
AOL will sometimes insert one or two top results from their private files, then present the resequenced Google results.
As such, it is pretty clear that while the data is from Google, you cannot assume the rankings are even close.
Remember that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within AOL before you register your pages.
Just registering with AOL does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to AOL:
The following search engines receive content from AOL:
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The Open Directory Add URL
- The Open Directory is a human edited directory, meaning that all sites listed in the directory are reviewed by human editors.
Interestingly enough, the editors have no control over individual category rankings -- they either let you in or keep you out.
How you rank is based upon a secret formula that only the Colonel knows.
Getting your site listed in the Open Directory is crutial, since their results contribute if not power many of the major search engines on the web.
Before submitting your site, you should find the categories where you want your site to be listed.
Be aware that each page in your site can be submitted to only one category in the Open Directiory.
Submission Times
- Because this is volunteer based editing and inclusion it can take up to 8 weeks to get listed in the The Open Directory.
You may be rejected by the category editor without explanation, but a common cause is that you may not offer unique content to the topic.
Remember that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within The Open Directory before you register your pages.
Just registering with The Open Directory does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to The Open Directory:
The following search engines receive content from The Open Directory:
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Google Add URL
- Google is a search engine that maintains its own spider based index.
Google also has a directory that is powered by the Open Directory; however, the sites within the directory are ranked according to Google's link popularity technology.
Google spiders the web to maintain its index, with emphasis on content and link popularity.
One factor that determines your rank on Google is the number of links that point to your site, the quality (popularity) of the sites that link to your site, the text in and around the links that point to your site, and who you link to.
Google's web crawler only views the visible text on your page.
The meta description and keywords have little influence on Google's rankings.
Google has become agressive when it comes to elimination of spamm.
To be listed in Google's directory, you should submit your site to the Open Directory.
Google: "Basically, Google's position is
that we prefer no hidden links, no hidden text, no automatic tools used
for positioning, and no cloaking. We prefer that Googlebot get the
exact same page that users see. In general, you can assume that we're as
conservative as possible. We don't like hidden links/text in divs/layers/iframes/css,
or links that are inconspicuous or punctuation, for example. Similarly,
we don't like cloaking or sneaky redirects in any form, whether it be user
agent/ip-based, or redirects through javascript, meta refreshes, 301/302's,
or 100% frames." More details are available at:
Content Policy, and
Guidelines. Report spam: spamreport@google.com
Google Tool
- Search in all 3 Google-sub-servers with one click - www www2 and www3. (www1 is not used right now, so it doesn't show up on the results-page...)
Google Tool made by Lasse Hedegaard
- feel free to use it - but please give him credit!
Submission Times
- Upon submiting to Google, it can take up to 3-6 weeks for your site to be listed in the index.
Google will respider every page in its database approximately once every 3-6 weeks and usually publishes a major update to it's index during the last week of each month.
Remember that that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Google before you register your pages.
Just registering with Google does not assure a suitable ranking.
Also note that a common Google type is Goggle, which leads you to a competing search engine.
The following search engines or directories provide content to Google:
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http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp
- the HotBot Add URL page uas been discontinued. Lycos, the owners of Hotbot, are expected to transform HotBot over the next few months to also use FAST results.
Until then, HotBot receives its information from four major sources.
Hotbot receives Sponsored listings from Overture.
HotBot receives its "Category Results" from the Open Directory.
If available, the first page of HotBot "Web Matches" are provided by Direct Hit, which ranks pages based on popularity.
The rest of the "Web Matches" are then provided by Inktomi.
The best way to get listed into HotBot's "Web Matches" is to get spidered by Inktomi.
If your web site then becomes popular enough thru Direct Hit, your page will appear higher on HotBot's "Web Matches".
To rank well in Inktomi you should you use keywords in the title and meta tags, use a high frequency of keywords in the body, and use shorter documents.
Inktomi is a crawling spider technology and thus any submission will lead to a full site being indexed.
You can submit up to 50 pages to Inktomi via HotBot; however, Inktomi will not index pages that are substantially duplicated.
Submission Times
- Initially, it can take up to 2 months to get spidered into the Inktomi database via HotBot.
Inktomi will respider every page in its database on a monthly basis.
Remember that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within HotBot before you register your pages.
Just registering with HotBot does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to HotBot:
The following search engines receive content from Google:
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Yahoo Add URL
- Yahoo has both a human-edited directory and a spider based index provided by Google.
Sponsored results are provided by Overture and appear at the top of the results page and additional entries are presented at the bottom of the page whenever a next page is available.
If you want to get into Yahoo's directory, you should use their Business Express plan.
Although it costs $299 each and every year (prices may vary), it guarantees that your site will get reviewed with 7 days; however, it does not guarantee that your site will get into the directory or where it will be placed.
Before submitting to Yahoo's index, you should search the Yahoo Directory and find the appropriate category for your site.
When filling out the form, make sure that the title and desciption you submit contain keyword phrases relevant to your site.
To get into Yahoo's "Web Page Matches", you should submit your site directly to Google.
Sites have been declined by Yahoo where there is not sufficient unique content on the pages submitted.
Yet another page selling the same product is not reason to be in Yahoo.
Remember that that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Yahoo before you register your pages.
Just registering with Yahoo does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to Yahoo:
The following search engines receive content from Yahoo:
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Overture Simple Signup
- Overture is a search engine that auctions its rankings.
In other words, the more you pay per click (PPC) on your results link, the higher your ranking.
For each keyword phrase, advertisers bid against each other for placement within the search results.
Below the paid listings, Overture gives additionial results that are provided by Inktomi.
To appear on Overture, you must first open an account and deposit money (credit card accepted).
Once you have an account, fill out the Overture Simple Signup form.
In the form, you should bid on the keyword phrases where you want your site to be listed.
Also, specify a title (max 40 characters) and a description (max 190 characters).
Your title and description can vary for each keyword, even if linked to the same page.
Remember that the keywords that you bid on must be related to your linked page.
To be listed below the paid listing section (free listings), you should submit your site to Inktomi.
NOTE: We are participating in the Overture Ambassador program which empowers us as Overture Partners to manage multiple client accounts under a single login.
We have been trained by Overture on creating optimal titles and descriptions, and on managing bid programs.
We are also offering "Who's Clicking Who", a PPC auditing tool designed to facilitate the tracking and use of various PPC programs.
Remember that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Overture before you register your pages.
Just registering with Overture does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to Overture:
The following search engines receive content from Overture:
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Inktomi Company
- Inktomi is a search engine data base used by (that powers) other search engines.
You can view Inktomi's results at any of their parnters sites.
It is important to rank well in the Inktomi data base because it powers so many other sites.
To rank well in Inktomi you should you use keywords in the title and meta tags, use a high frequency of keywords in the body, and use shorter documents.
Inktomi is a crawling spider technology and thus any submission will lead to a full site being indexed.
Inktomi URL Add is via a paid spidering service operated by PositionTech.
Free submission to Inktomi can be done here.
Inktomi: "Inktomi considers spam to be pages created deliberately to
trick the search engine into offering inappropriate, redundant, or
poor-quality search results." More details are available at:
Spam Policy,
Content Policy, and
Guidelines. Report spam: spambuster@inktomi.com
Submission Times
- Initially, it can take up to 4 weeks to get spidered into the Inktomi database.
Inktomi will respider every page in its database on a monthly basis.
Remember that that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Inktomi before you register your pages.
Just registering with Inktomi does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories receive content from Inktomi:
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Teoma Add URL (FEE REQUIRED - Paid Inclusion Only)
- Teoma is a technology company that measures the authority as well as the popularity of web sites.
It powers other search engines, specifically Ask Jeeves, as well as powering its own search engine.
It is owned by Ask Jeeves who merged DirectHit with Teoma in early April, 2002.
Teoma uses what they have branded as Subject-Specific PopularitySM that ranks a site based on the number of same-subject pages in other ranked sites that link to it, not just general popularity (page count), to determine a site's level of authority. It does not help to be in a LinkFarm.
Teoma also has has crawling spider technology and thus any submission will lead to a full site being indexed.
Initial results are sponsored Google AdWord links.
Teoma / Ask Jeeves: One of the most definitive sources that I have found is at AskJeeves/Teoma who define the acts that will keep you from being ranked.
Read this between the lines -- no spamming, no doorway pages, no redirection, and no cloaking. Report spam: help@teoma.com
Remember that that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Teoma before you register your pages.
Just registering with Teoma does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to Teoma:
The following search engines receive content from Teoma:
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Alta Vista Add URL (Free is bottom area on their page with the funny looking "submission code") - Alta Vista is a search engine that uses many sources to produce its results. These sources include Looksmart, the Open Directory, Real Names, and its own web-crawling spider.
After submitting a search phase to Alta Vista, the user, by default, is given Alta Vista's web page matches, which are produced by Alta Vista's web page index.
Alta Vista does not provide a directory option, but does offer a LookSmart search from the bottom of each page.
Alta Vista Paid Submission
- Alta Vista offers a paid submission program.
One specific page is spidered (no crawling from there) and indexed, commonly within a week.
This service is mandatory and is commonly provided as part of a Search Engine Optimization project.
Alta Vista is example of a full-text search engine, meaning that it will read all text that appears on your page.
The use of keywords in the title and in the first lines of text is critical to getting well ranked on AltaVista.
Alta Vista also considers link relevancy in determing rankings.
Alta Vista will also consider the use of keyword phrases in the Meta Tags, Comments, and Headers.
Only submit 3 to 5 pages per day and be VERY careful not to spam by submitting too often.
AltaVista is a crawling spider technology and thus any submission will lead to a full site being indexed.
Note that while there is not a known limit to the pages that can be indexed, Alta Vista will not index pages that are substantially duplicated.
Allow 3 to 4 week Add cycles with subsequent monthly spidering.
CAUTION: We have used the Alta Vista paid submission program.
When spidered our initial ranking was #12 for "search engine optimization".
Two days later we settled at #4.
When resubmitted thru the paid program we immediately returned to #12, then 2 days later we were back to #4.
We believe that the paid submission spider was causing us to decrease in ranking from #4 to #12. To avoid this penalty, once we were #4 we changed the spidered page (yes, you can do that) to another page from our site.
OPPS - the page ranked as #4 was immediately and totally removed from the AltaVista index.
So it seems that once you are paying for spidering, you must always pay for spidering or you will be deleted from the AltaVista index, and must wait weeks for the "free" submission to re-index your site.
Note that AltaVista no longer spiders full sites using links between pages.
You must submit the specific page you want indexed or it will not be located and indexed.
Results are presented in the following sequence: 1) featured (doubleclick ad), 2) Overture (2 entries), and 3) it's own index.
AltaVista: AltaVista shares a great many spam rules that are common to other search engines, but they have a specific virtual IP spam note that "if being found via search engines is important to your business, be very careful about where you have your pages hosted.
If the hosting service also hosts spammers and pornographers, you could wind up being penalized or excluded simply because the underlying IP address for that service is the same for all the virtual domains it includes."
Report spam: spam-support@altavista.com
Remember that that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within AltaVista before you register your pages.
Just registering with AltaVista does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to AltaVista:
The following search engines receive content from AltaVista:
- None
AltaVista has search index interfaces for the following countries:
- Australia (.au),
- Austria (.at),
- Belgium (.be),
- Brazil (.br),
- Canada (.ca),
- Denmark (.dk),
- Finland (.fi),
- France (.fr),
- Germany (.de),
- India (.in),
- Ireland (.ie),
- Italy (.it),
- Korea (.kr),
- New Zealand (.nz),
- Netherlands (.nl),
- Norway (.no),
- Portugal (.pt),
- Spain (.es),
- Sweden (.se),
- Switzerland (.ch),
- and the
- United Kingdon (.uk).
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Looksmart Add URL - Looksmart is a web directory that charges a fee for site submission, and a Pay-per-Click rate. For $49 (prices may vary over time), you are guaranteed to have your site reviewed and (if appropriate) placed in Looksmart within 48 hours. There is also a need to pre-pay $149 for 100 clicks per month for 10 months, refundable if you cancel. Additionially, you are listed in the most appropriate categories based upon a Looksmart editor's determination.
Looksmart also offers a $49 review and revision plan and only guarantees that your site is reviewed in eight weeks although it is usually much faster.
Before submiting your site to Looksmart, you should first scan the Looksmart directory to find the most appropriate category.
Second, you should make sure your title and description does not exceed 35 and 145 characters respectively.
After this, you can then proceed to fill out the form and submit your site.
Looksmart will contact you by email about your submission.
If successful, they will tell what category your site was placed into.
Otherwise, they will write you about the appeal process.
You can resubmit to other categories about every 6 weeks.
Looksmart claims to be included by search engines that collectively provide 80+% of all search results, making it the largest in usage of all search engine data bases.
Zeal Add URL Process
- Zeal is an increasingly important part of the LookSmart Network, offering free listings to noncommercial and not-for-profit Web sites.
If this is you, go here.
Remember that that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Looksmart before you register your pages.
Just registering with Looksmart does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines receive content from Looksmart:
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IWon Add URL (Free is the Top 10 section)
- IWon is a search engine that is powered by a variety of sources.
IWon is reporting a great many top positions from Overture where the URL is associated with paid positioning.
IWon's "Web Directory Categories" are provided by Looksmart.
Direct Hit still powers IWon's "Most Popular" Section even tho replaced by Teoma/Ask Jeeves and no longer available to normal surfers.
Iwon receives its "Matching Web Sites" results from Google (after the Overture entries).
Iwon does not maintain its own data base.
To have your site be listed on IWon, you should submit your site directly to Looksmart, Overture ($$ PPC), and Google.
Remember that that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within IWon before you register your pages.
Just registering with IWon does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to IWon:
The following search engines receive content from IWon:
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Ask Jeeves Submission via email
- Ask Jeeves is example of a search engine that answers questions.
When a user enters a search term (or question), Ask Jeeves responds with possible questions that the user can ask followed by traditional search engine results.
If the user then selects the question that he/she wants answered, Ask Jeeves then returns sites that answer that question.
The sponsored entries are provided by Google.
The "Featured Sponsor" (right top) is from Sprinks.
The main results are Teoma's relevant sites for the search phrase.
Below this, Ask Jeeves also provides access to the top results for the search phrase on LookSmart and Sprinks.
The "Browse by Subject" tab is an Ask Jeeves directory.
Sites are submitted to Teoma or Ask Jeeves to get into Ask Jeeves.
Teoma / Ask Jeeves: One of the most definitive spam definitions that I have found is at AskJeeves/Teoma who define the acts that will keep you from being ranked.
Read this between the lines -- no spamming, no doorway pages, no redirection, and no cloaking. Report spam: help@teoma.com
Remember that that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Ask Jeeves before you register your pages.
Just registering with Ask Jeeves does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to Ask Jeeves:
The following search engines receive content from Ask Jeeves:
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NOTICE: Starting on December 17th, 2001 Excite results were produced from Overture, although apparently not entirely in a bid-sequence.
It appears that the top 15 results are in the Overture sequence, and that those in position 16 and higher appear to be additional Overture results except sorted by relevance instead of bid.
This will include the "free" Inktomi results reported by Overture if warranted.
Excite is a MetaSearch engine receiving results from Overture, Inktomi, Fast, AskJeeves, Looksmart, about.com, and FindWhat -- just about anybody that is a PPC feed.
It is not yet clear how relevance (results sequence) is determined, but it appears to be determined by the algorithms of the other search engines providing the results.
Excite results come from Pay-Per-Click engines, notably Overture for top results followed by Inktomi.
Adding a URL and ranking management is achieved thru Overture and Inktomi.
Excite, WebCrawler, and Magellan all use the same database in conducting their searches; therefore, these search engines return the same results.
The following search engines or directories provide content to Excite:
The following search engines receive content from Excite:
WebCrawler and Magellan are virtual clones of the Excite results, generally with a different presentation on the same information.
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Go - Add URL is accomplished ONLY via the Overture bid system
- Go provides the primary results from the Overture Pay-per-click (PPC) index, which is maintained by owners bidding on their ranking (see Overture).
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MSN Add URL (via Inktomi) - MSN receives its search results from a variety of sources.
The "Featured Sites" section results are provided by MSN's sponsors.
The results in the "Web Directory Topics" and "Web Directory Sites" sections come from Looksmart, MSN's primary provider.
To get a top ranking you need to participate in the LookSmart pay-per-click program, so submission occurs at Looksmart.
In some cases LookSmart does not have sufficient results, so Inktomi "Web Pages" results follow and thus your "free" indexed entries may rank well.
At the top of the "Web Directory Sites" section, you can click on a link to view the 10 most popular sites provided by Direct Hit.
The "Web Pages" section is provided by Inktomi.
Although you can submit directly to MSN, you would be better off to directly submit to Looksmart and Inktomi.
The top search results are generally in Looksmart sequence.
Since Looksmart is a PPC (pay-per-click) directory, if your account balance falls to $0 your ranking in this section of MSN will vanish. This means that the rankings in MSN are not stable on a day-to-day basis and that you should consider paying into the Looksmart program.
Remember that that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within MSN before you register your pages.
Just registering with MSN does not assure a suitable ranking.
The following search engines or directories provide content to MSN:
The following search engines receive content from MSN:
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NOTICE: Starting on December 17th, 2001 Excite results, who provides all of the WebCrawler results, were produced from Overture, although apparently not entirely in a bid-sequence.
It appears that the top 15 results are in the Overture sequence, and that those in position 16 and higher appear to be additional Overture results except sorted by relevance instead of bid.
This will include the "free" Inktomi results reported by Overture if warranted.
It is not yet clear how relevance is determined, but may be based on an old WebCrawler data base and algorithm.
WebCrawler results come from Excite, and are specifically from Pay-Per-Click engines, notably Overture for top results.
Adding a URL and ranking management is achieved thru Overture.
WebCrawler, Excite, and Magellan all use the same database in conducting their searches; therefore, these search engines return the same results.
The following search engines or directories provide content to WebCrawler:
The following search engines receive content from WebCrawler:
WebCrawler and Magellan are virtual clones of the Excite results, generally with a different presentation of the same information.
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