MORE SEARCH ENGINES:
AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=addurl
AllTheWeb (including Fast, influences Lycos)
http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com/add_url.php3
Direct Hit (influences Hotbot and MSN)
http://www.directhit.com/util/addurl.html
Excite, AOL Netfind, Magellan,
WebCrawler
Excite is one of
the most widely known portals on the Web. Its search technology powers AOL
Netfind, Magellan, and WebCrawler, so you can register once and get listed
with all four portals.
home page: http://www.excite.com/
submit page: http://www.excite.com/info/add_url_form
tips: The Excite network
spider does not recognize meta tags other than description tags. Excite tries
to crawl your site every two weeks. Excite's
Web crawler goes deep: it attempts to index every page in your site
Fast
Search (same as alltheweb)
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php3
Google
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html
Hotbot (possibly the best way to get noticed by
inktomi, which doesn't have a submit URL page, is to submit to Hotbot).
http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp
http://www.hotbot.com/addurl.asp
Northern Light
http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html
MetaCrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com/help/faq/indexing.html
MSN
Search
http://search.msn.com/addurl.asp
Canada.com (appears to influence Hotbot). Has
two confirmation buttons in sequence.
http://www.canada.com/search/web/addurl.asp
Search.com will
submit your web site for registration with up to 14 major search services.
However the process we expect to be automated.
http://www.search.com/submit
Alexa
is a Web navigation project that can gauge your site's appeal and traffic
compared to those of other sites. Alexa also maintains an archive, so if your
site is temporarily unavailable, Alexa users can view a recent copy of your
pages.
home page: http://www.alexa.com/
submit page: http://www.alexa.com/support/get_archive.html
Anzwers
is a search engine especially for Net users in Australia and New Zealand.
International content is welcome, so don't hesitate to add your URL.
home page: http://www.anzwers.com.au/
submit page: http://www.anzwers.com.au/cgi-bin/print_addurl.pl
WebTop,
UK-based WebTop owns one of the largest Web indexes, searchable via an
innovative front end.
home page: http://www.webtop.com/
submit page: http://www.webtop.com/search/vanilla/addurl.html
tips: WebTop ignores URLs that are excessively
long or that contain special characters such as ?, &, and !. You
must confirm your submission via email before WebTop will add your site.
WhatUSeek
WhatUseek started in 1996 as an independent search engine. Today, WhatUseek
supports the Chubba metasearch.
home page: http://www.whatuseek.com/
submit page: http://www.whatuseek.com/addurl-tableset.shtml
tips: Allow one to four days for the WhatUseek
spider, Winona, to index your site. WhatUseek removes
outdated and dead links frequently. The engine sends a
single confirmation email.
Ask Jeeves, TEOMA,
DirectHit
home page & submit page: http://ask.ineedhits.com/
note: Their website requests a one time fee to guarantee your
most important web pages will be included in the database powering Ask.com and
Teoma.com.
