Which are the top five US based engines?

Also which are the top five free submission engines

[IanTurner]

This is a question for all those US people who have asked about the top UK engines.

[rcjordan]

For me (travel & real estate focus)

MSN
Google
Yahoo and it's google.
AOL
GoTo (that's right, the FREE part, INK is now my #5 -bumping AV)

Note: I think I'd be better off if AOL were in the #2 slot, I don't rank as high with them as I do in Google and Yahoo.

[seth_wilde]

The last official stats (engine by reffers)I saw went like this:

1. Yahoo
2. MSN
3. Google
4. AOL
5. AltaVista

[agerhart]

Last time I checked:

Top 5

Yahoo
Google
MSN
Alta Vista
All the Web

[Brett_Tabke]

For me (geek related - traffic wise):

1: google
2: google.yahoo
3: lycos
4: aol
5: alta
6: msn

fast, nl, wisenut, odp, excite, looksmart, teoma. Yep, more referrals so far this month from WiseNut, than the $1200 in Looksmart listings.

[andrey_sea]

1. Google
2. Yahoo+google.yahoo
3. Excite
4. Altavista
5. MSN

[Robert Charlton]

Depends what you mean by "top engines." What I'm getting at is that I think ODP, a directory, is extremely important in the mix, as it affects ranking on a bunch of engines that everyone agrees are top engines. Almost no one searches on ODP itself.

[JamesR]

1. Google
2. MSN
3. Yahoo-google
4. Yahoo search
5. Altavista

Oddly enough, Yahoo-google has been out-referring regular Yahoo search, new phenomenon with increase on Google.