Which SE?

Got lost in all the SE and them using each other's results.

[moltar]

I've got lost on which engines use who's results and how to get listed?

Here are some stats for Jan 2003:

Name - User market share
Google - 29.5%
Yahoo - 28.9%
MSN - 27.6%
AOL - 18.4%
Ask Jeeves - 9.9%
GoTO - 4.8%
InfoSpace - 4.5%
Netscape - 4.4%
AltaVista - 4.0%
Lycos - 2.4%
EarthLink - 2.0%
LookSmart - 1.7%

I want to get into all of them. But I got really confused. As I know some SE use each other's results. Can you please tell me who uses who and how to get listed there.

Maybe there is a site that explains that?

TIA!

[mack]

Hi there.

Heres my take on this.

From the list you gave ....

google provides results to: Google, yahoo, aol, netscape, go, earthlink

Altavista: provides it's own database.

MSN: various providers, lots of ppc, pfi companies. (looksmart,inktomi ect)

Ask jeeves: Pay per click, teoma index.

GOTO: Now caled overture. PPC search provider.

Infospace: Google Looksmart Inktomi Ask Jeeves About Overture FindWhat FAST Teoma.

Lycos: Partially alltheweb, also OV

Looksmart: PPC model provides results to various other portals. Most importaintly MSN.

Hope this helps.

Mack.

[moltar]

Thanks a lot mack! This really cleared things out for me :)]

So basically there is no way to get into MSN, Ask Jeeves, Overture and Looksmart for free?

[kevinpate]

One Avenue, if your site has a non-commercial content page or section, is to submit the non-commerce area through Zeal, which is used with M$N.

At least I think they'll consider a deep link to non-commercial content, even if they won't accept a root index due to the other commercial parts.

If I'm wrong, it won't be worth calling CNN, they're used to me being wrong. 8^)