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Listing of a few different search engines on the web.
All the Web, All the Time
bing [Microsoft, MSN]
C/net Search.com
Dogpile Multi Engine Search
Google
Lycos
Mamma Multi Engine Search
MetaCrawler Multi Engine Search
MSN Search; now called bing
Netscape-Open Directory Project ODP
Picsearch, Picture or text search
Yahoo
BUBL {UK}, uses the Dewey Decimal system
Many other search engines not listed here use the same open source data Netscape does, provided by the Open Directory Project [http://dmoz.org]. Some of the Search Engines just mine data from other Search Engines to produce a hit listing. Some only do picture searches. There are a few so called engineering search engines, but in many cases just using Google works just as well. Engineering sites and manufacturers rate high if the right key words are used.
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Best ways to get listed on Google
If you happen to run your own web site, you should apply to be listed on the Open Directory Project. But because the ODP manually adds web sites it could take a number of months to get listed. Their blog inidcates that it could take up to a year.
Google brings in the most traffic to this site, 90.73%, followed by Yahoo at 5.37%, than MSN at 2.6%. All other search engine traffic to this site is below one percent.
