Oh How Things Change

funny stuff you find in your hard drive sometimes

[PatrickDeese]

Oh how times change... I submit to public scrutiny and humiliation a list of search engines that I compiled for a client nearly 3 years ago who wanted to know "all" the search engines I was submitting to... Complete and unedited. I love what I said about Google... ;)

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Aeiwi (06/12/2000)
A new search engine, no idea yet if they are going to evolve into something decent.

Alexa (06/12/2000)
Alexa is a new spider/index that provides an in-browser URL recommendation system.

AllTheWeb (06/12/2000)
New search engine that promises to index all of the web.

AltaVista (06/12/2000)
One of the best search engines around. Give it one of your URLs, and it will index your entire site.

Anzwers (06/12/2000)
Australia/New Zealand-based search engine, but they will spider sites around the world.

Canada.com
Uses the Inktomi database, and apparently a fast way to get into Inktomi search engines.

DirectHit (06/12/2000)
DirectHit is a database that provides popularity ranking information to search engines (like Hotbot). Getting your URL into their database can help you rank better on DirectHit results from the other sites.

EuroSeek (06/12/2000)
European engine, but crawls the world.

Excite (06/12/2000)
Another great search engine. All it needs is your URL and email address.

Google (06/12/2000)
Google is an experimental search engine that researchers at Stanford are using to test out new search engine techniques. It's now being turned into a commercial search engine, and a pretty cool one at that. Please note that they are very slow to list, so don't worry if you don't appear for a while.

HotBot (06/12/2000)
The Hotwired Search Engine (now part of Lycos).

InfoMak (06/12/2000)
A new site that is apparently spidering the web.

Lycos (06/12/2000)
One of the first, and best, search engines.

MasterSite (06/12/2000)
New search engine. Too soon to tell how important they will become.

National Directory (06/12/2000)
National Directory is both a search engine and an index.

Northern Light (06/12/2000)
An interesting indexing/search service.

SearchIt (06/12/2000)
Yet another new search engine

SimpleSearch (06/12/2000)
Very simple search engine interface, apparently done in conjunction with DirectHit

UKMax (06/12/2000)
New UK-based search engine, powered by Inktomi.

WebCrawler (06/12/2000)
Webcrawler is now owned by excite.

WebsMostLinked (06/12/2000)
Not so much a search engine as a way to rank yourself against other sites in terms of link popularity.

WebTop (06/12/2000)
Formerly EuroFerret, now accepting submissions from around the world.

What-U-Seek (06/18/2000)
Nice looking engine. Not sure of its popularity yet.

Ask.com (aka Ask Jeeves) (6/18/2000)
(this is simply a request, no way to promise an addition)

[jeremy goodrich]

>>>>>>AltaVista (06/12/2000)
One of the best search engines around. Give it one of your URLs, and it will index your entire site.

That is very telling. How quickly things change, eh?

But then again, at that point in time, I thought SEO was *only* about building pages by the thousands with software, and then cloaking the tar out of them :)

[Mike_Mackin]

We recently reopened one of our PPC accounts at that had been left dormant for a couple of years. It was disgraceful the amount of pure spam I'd gotten in that account.

Example = Yahoo
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