Search Engines

Recent studies show that more than 75 percent of Internet users utilize search engines to navigate the Web. Learning how to use search engines and which ones to use for specific purposes, will make Web surfing a more pleasurable and profitable experience.

You can learn more about how search engines work, search engine / SEO / SEOP strategies for your business and Web promotion at PromoteWebs.com. Our summaries and opinions follow.  Our search engine submission links are listed below.

Google reportedly owns 48% of the search engine marketplace.  Yahoo owns 21% and MSN owns 12%,

• Google Google is an extremely impressive search engine; the best in our opinion. Google is the leader in the number of pages indexed; currently listing 8 billion pages searched. Google includes link popularity in its ranking algorithms.  Google does not charge for submissions or listings, a factor which helped increase its dominance over other search engines.  Google does offer sponsor links and Ad words which appear unobtrusively on the right side of the returned pages.  Google's Ad Partners that display Google ads include AOL, Netscape, CompuServe, Infospace (Excite, Dogpile, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler), Ask Jeeves, Ask Jeeves Kids, Teoma Dealtime, AT&T WorldNet and EarthLink.

Google is the spillover and default search engine for numerous search engines and directories.  Google offers a clutter-free, attractive and fast search engine.  Google is a public company and is very profitable.  Google is one of the only search engines that permits Web site owners to place an ad-free search box on their site as illustrated below.

• MSN  MSN is a very good search engine. It is important due to Microsoft's prominence and because it is the default for many Microsoft users. MSN is also the default when a user types a name into the IE 5 browser address window (e.g., "consultwebs" versus "www.consultwebs.com".)
  
  MSN released its new search engine in 2005.  More than 5 billion Web pages have been indexed.
   

• Yahoo Yahoo developed and began using its own search engine in 2005.  It has previously used Google's results.  Yahoo is second to Google in visitor popularity and number of "hours spent on the Internt."  It is helpful for businesses to be listed in Yahoo.

• AltaVista  Altavista was purchased by Overture. Overture was purchased by Yahoo.  Altavista was once a search engine leader, but its marketshare has diminished greatly.
   

• Excite  Excite is a property of Ask Jeeves and has been a subject of media discussion regarding its potential for survival.

• InfoSeek / Go.com InfoSeek is not highly regarded, but has good directory information. On January 29, 2001, 1-29-01, Walt Disney stated that it was closing its money-losing Internet operation GO.com.  See CNNfn.com for an article discussing the closing.

• AOL AOL uses Google as a source for its search engine.
   

• SavvySearch SavvySearch is a decent metasearch (often called megasearch) engine, better than most.  Our experience has been that individual search engines provide better quality returns than metasearch engines. Certain metasearch engines often give paid listings search engine results higher rankings, however, SavvySearch does not seem to do so.

• Lycos Lycos has some innovative techniques and continues to be a decent search engine.

• WebCrawler WebCrawler provides results from several search engines.

• Deja News News Groups - Great place to find new and unusual info.

• AllTheWeb A search engine, serviced by Yahoo, featuring tabbed categories such as Web Page, News, Pictures, Videos, MP3 Files, FTP Files.

• Consultwebs.com's list of additional search engines

There are no easy answers to search engine success. Our sites rank high in searches, however, this is a result of hundreds of hours of study, experience, experimentation and ongoing maintenance. Examples include our consistent top 10 world rankings in Google and other search engines for searches on the terms law firm Web designers, law firm Web consultants, law firm Web promotion, Web optimization, law firm Web promotion consultants, etc.

Search engines frequently change their indexing algorithms to provide quality listings. Each search engine uses different criteria to rank sites. Search engines are growing rapidly and sometimes drop sites from their indexes. Therefore, a search engine strategy must be in place. Please see our PromoteWebs.com Web site for detailed search engine and promotion information. If you wish to see how your site ranks in leading search engines, please contact us.

Paid Submissions

Please see our pay-per-click page or Promotewebs.com site for information on sponsored ads.

We invite you to visit and post to our search engine and marketing discussion boards.

Consultwebs.com Search Engine Results

Search Engine Submission URL's

• AltaVista

• AOL NetFind

• AllTheWeb - Fast

• Google

• HotBot

• LookSmart

• Lycos

• Open Directory

• Overture

• Yahoo

Note: Consultwebs.com has no affiliation with any search engine nor any search engine positioning software company. 

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Domain Information

• IPLawUs.com Consultwebs.com's extensive domain links and resources.

• Network Solutions Formerly the Internic group.

• America Online

• CORE Internet Council of Registrars. An international association of Internet domain name registrars.

• Register.com Services primarily small to medium sized businesses.

• France Telecom/Oléane French service provider

• WSMDOMAINS View domain name options and $15 per year domains

Melbourne IT Australian organization.

Note: The new suffices - .firm, .shop, .web, .arts, .rec, .info and .nom- will be available through independent CORE registrars on five continents. An ICANN meeting in July 2000 moved acceptance of the name suffices closer, but still left many questions unanswered.

Available domain extensions include .com, .co, .uk, .tf, .ms, .gs, .net, .org, .uk, .ac, .vg, .ky, .org, .md, .sh, and .tc.

To obtain international WhoIs type capability for domain names in other countries and more, see Consultwebs.com

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