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Something like 60% or more of users in the western world use Google.
Toss in Yahoo, and you have maybe 85%, my off the hip estimates of course.
Add in MSN search and you are way up into the 90th percentile.
In short, the other 997 engines (out of 1000) hardly matter for driving traffic your way.
Sure, some services will submit your site to 1000 wannabe search engines,
lasagna directories, dog and cat guestbooks and what have you,
but I really doubt its worth it unless the service is way cheap. - Larry
Thinking of buying something from a site to get me submitted to 1000+ search engines, good idea?
This will get you on at least 1000 junk email lists.
There used to be an email going around that offered to submit you to 500,000 engines for $39.95. ;)
As has been pointed out, there are very few search engines worth considering, and submitting generally won't help you get into them or to rank in their free serps anyway. Notice that the "Search Engine Submission" forum in WebmasterWorld is deprecated.
Best way to get in is to build a site worth linking to and then get someone already in the index to link to you.
