Top Search Engines 1
Google
Google has increased in popularity tenfold the past severalyears. They have gone from beta testing, to becoming theInternet's largest index of web pages in a very short time.Their spider, affectionately named "Googlebot", crawls theweb and provides updates to Google's index about once amonth.
Google.com began as an academic search engine. Google, byfar, has a very good algorithm of ranking pages returnedfrom a result, probably one of the main reasons it hasbecome so popular over the years. Google has several methodswhich determine page rank in returned searches.
Yahoo
Yahoo! is one of the oldest web directories and portals onthe Internet today, and the site went live in August of1994. Yahoo! is a 100% human edited directory, and providessecondary search results using Google.
Yahoo! is also one of the largest traffic generators around,as far as web directories and search engines go.Unfortunately, however, it is also one of the most difficultto get listed in, unless of course you pay to submit yoursite. Even if you pay it doesn't guarantee you will getlisted.
Either way, if you suggest a URL, it is "reviewed" by aYahoo! editor, and if approved will appear in the next indexupdate.
AltaVista
Many who have access to web logs may have seen a spidernamed 'scooter' accessing their pages. Scooter used to beAltaVista's robot. However, since the Feb 2001 site update,a newer form of Scooter is now crawling the web. Whicheverspider AltaVista uses, it is one of the largest searchengines on the net today, next to Google.
It will usually take several months for AltaVista to indexyour entire site, although the past few months scooterhasn't been deep crawling too well. Unlike Google, AltaVistawill only crawl and index 1 link deep, so it takes a goodamount of time to index your site depending on how largeyour site is.
AltaVista gets most of its results from its own index,however they do pull the top 5 results of each search fromOverture (formerly Goto).
Inktomi
Inktomi's popularity grew several years ago as they poweredthe secondary search database that had driven Yahoo. Sincethen, Yahoo as switched to using Google as their secondarysearch and backend database, however Inktomi is just aspopular now, as they were several years ago, if not more so.Their spiders are named "Slurp", and different versions ofSlurp crawls the web many different times throughout themonth, as Inktomi powers many sites search results. Thereisn't much more to Inktomi then that. Slurp puts heavyweight on Title and description tags, and will rarely deepcrawl a site. Slurp usually only spider’s pages that aresubmitted to its index.
Inktomi provides results to a number of sites. Some of theseare America Online, MSN, Hotbot, Looksmart, About, Goto,CNet, Geocities, NBCi, ICQ and many more.
Google has increased in popularity tenfold the past severalyears. They have gone from beta testing, to becoming theInternet's largest index of web pages in a very short time.Their spider, affectionately named "Googlebot", crawls theweb and provides updates to Google's index about once amonth.
Google.com began as an academic search engine. Google, byfar, has a very good algorithm of ranking pages returnedfrom a result, probably one of the main reasons it hasbecome so popular over the years. Google has several methodswhich determine page rank in returned searches.
Yahoo
Yahoo! is one of the oldest web directories and portals onthe Internet today, and the site went live in August of1994. Yahoo! is a 100% human edited directory, and providessecondary search results using Google.
Yahoo! is also one of the largest traffic generators around,as far as web directories and search engines go.Unfortunately, however, it is also one of the most difficultto get listed in, unless of course you pay to submit yoursite. Even if you pay it doesn't guarantee you will getlisted.
Either way, if you suggest a URL, it is "reviewed" by aYahoo! editor, and if approved will appear in the next indexupdate.
AltaVista
Many who have access to web logs may have seen a spidernamed 'scooter' accessing their pages. Scooter used to beAltaVista's robot. However, since the Feb 2001 site update,a newer form of Scooter is now crawling the web. Whicheverspider AltaVista uses, it is one of the largest searchengines on the net today, next to Google.
It will usually take several months for AltaVista to indexyour entire site, although the past few months scooterhasn't been deep crawling too well. Unlike Google, AltaVistawill only crawl and index 1 link deep, so it takes a goodamount of time to index your site depending on how largeyour site is.
AltaVista gets most of its results from its own index,however they do pull the top 5 results of each search fromOverture (formerly Goto).
Inktomi
Inktomi's popularity grew several years ago as they poweredthe secondary search database that had driven Yahoo. Sincethen, Yahoo as switched to using Google as their secondarysearch and backend database, however Inktomi is just aspopular now, as they were several years ago, if not more so.Their spiders are named "Slurp", and different versions ofSlurp crawls the web many different times throughout themonth, as Inktomi powers many sites search results. Thereisn't much more to Inktomi then that. Slurp puts heavyweight on Title and description tags, and will rarely deepcrawl a site. Slurp usually only spider’s pages that aresubmitted to its index.
Inktomi provides results to a number of sites. Some of theseare America Online, MSN, Hotbot, Looksmart, About, Goto,CNet, Geocities, NBCi, ICQ and many more.
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