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Amongst the many search
engines found on the internet, there are only a
few search engines that stand out from the rest.
And as such, these high traffic search engines
are the most important search engines to be
listed on.
The top major search engines are:
- Google
- Yahoo!
- Bing
- MSN/Live
- Ask
- AOL Search |
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Google, Yahoo and Bing rule the internet taking
in 90% of the searches performed online.
Furthermore, it’s Google and Yahoo who provide
the rest of the major search engines with their
search results as well.
Google however, remains the top major search
engine providing the most search results for all
the major search engines and continues to be the
top major search engine online. And as such, it
important to get listed on Google as Google will
provide the rest of the search engines with your
listings as well.
And if it came down to listing your site on just
one search engine, then Google would be that one
main search engine to have your site listed on
and it will continue to be the most important
search engine for many years to come.
After your site has been indexed by Google, the
rest of the search engines will find your site
from Google search engine results.
Furthermore, you don’t even have to submit your
site to Google. The Google spider crawls the
internet daily, seeking new websites to add to
its’ vast database.
Once your website is live and online then Google
will find your site and add it to their database
within a matter of days.
You don’t have to submit your website to any
search engines online. All you have to do is
build your website, fill out your title meta
tags and add content to your website. And within
a matter of days your site will be found,
indexed and added to not only Googles’ database
but to the rest of the top search engine
database systems as well. And this is just one
reason why Google has become the most important
search engine in the world.
Google
www.google.com
Google is the most popular and largest
crawler-based search engine on the internet. It
is the most sought after search engine for both
publishers and advertisers as well. And Google
has many special features to help the user find
exactly what they're looking for.
Publishers and website owners choose Google as
the most important search engine to be listed on
while advertisers choose Google to advertise
their website, products and services online
since Google gets them the most exposure for
their advertising dollars.
And most importantly, there are more internet
users using Google to perform searches online
than any other major search engine in the world.
And this is why Google is the first choice for
users, publishers and advertisers as well.
Google also offers two of the most popular
advertising programs online such as Google
AdWords for the advertiser and Google AdSense
for the publisher. And both of these advertising
systems have become very profitable for all
parties involved.
Google receives over 1 billion unique visitors
per month. And there are many reasons why people
choose Google over every other search engine out
there today. But for the Internet storefront
owner, Google is the most important search
engine to be listed on for maximum exposure
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Yahoo
www.yahoo.com
Yahoo!, the world's most visited home page, is
another major and popular search engine with
millions of visitors per month and is also one
of the oldest search engines as well.
Yahoo was first started as an internet directory
where people organized and placed websites into
their own categories, such as business &
economy, computer & Internet, education and
health etc. And these main directories were, and
still are, broken into sub-directories and
sub-categories as well.
Soon after, Yahoo switched over to crawler-based
listings for its’ main search results but still
kept its’ directory listings in tact as well.
However, not many internet users use the Yahoo
directory any more and instead prefer to do
their own searches online, manually, by typing
in keywords and keyword phrases.
Yahoo also offers a robust shopping network as
well. Users use Yahoo Shopping to shop at
hundreds of Yahoo approved stores online. And
Yahoo shopping categories include clothing &
accessories, computers, electronics, DVDs,
music, books and more. And this is just one more
reason why users flock to Yahoo daily.
Yahoo also sells pay-per-click advertising
across the Yahoo network as well which brings in
more publishers and advertisers to Yahoo. And
overall, Yahoo pulls over 100 million visitors
per month, easily. |
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Bing
www.Bing.com
Bing is another dominant and high traffic search
engine on the Internet today and is also known
as the decision engine – the search engine that
helps you to make better decisions.
And just like Google and Yahoo, Bing also
delivers excellent search results as well.
Furthermore, Bing offers a related search menu
on the side and in the footer section of the
search results with more related search options
and search categories to help narrow down your
search.
For example, if a user were to perform a search
on Bing for Dell Laptops, they would get a few
advertised sponsored listings first, followed by
the Dell manufacturers’ website, and then price
comparison listings along with product images as
well. After that, they would find multiple
websites selling Dell laptops online. And this
is a typical feature in other major search
engines as well.
However, when performing a general search on
Bing for Dell Laptops the user will also get a
related search menu displaying the following
related search categories:
Cheap Dell Laptop Computer
Dell Inspiron
Dell Latitude
Top 10 Laptops
Dell Official Site
Dell Laptop Computer Prices
Dell Laptops for Sale
Cheap Dell Laptop
The user or potential customer can search
through and click on any of the main search
results or use any of the helpful search result
options on the side, which in turn can help the
customer make better decisions online. And this
is just one of the reasons why Bing has become
one of the top major search engines and indeed
is also a decision making engine as well. |
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MSN/Live
www.msn.com
MSN/Live is a major part of the Microsoft
network and is Microsoft’s’ main portal, which
offers MSNBC News, sports, MSN Money, games,
videos, entertainment, celebrity gossip,
weather, shopping and more great content, as
well as Windows Live services such as Hotmail
and Messenger as well.
However, when performing a search on MSN the
user is directed to the Bing search engine and
looking at search results on Bing. And the
reason being is because MSN and Bring are both
part of the Microsoft Network with Bing serving
MSN with its’ search results. So when a user is
searching on MSN, they’re really searching on
Bing.
Nevertheless, millions of visitors continue to
visit MSN/Live for news, games entertainment,
Hotmail and messenger as well, which makes
MSN/Live another high traffic, top ranking
search engine. |
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Ask
www.ask.com
Ask.com has been labeled by experts as the
Internets’ #1 question answering service that
delivers the best answers from the web and real
people as well.
Every day, millions of internet users go to
Ask.com to ask personal, professional, and
business questions as well. At Ask.com, their
goal is to answer your questions with the best
information from the web and from real live
people.
On Ask.com, which used to be known as the
“natural language” search engine, you can ask
any questions as if you were asking and speaking
to an actual person. And the response you would
get would seem as if it came from an actual real
person while providing the best and most
accurate answers to all of your questions.
However, Ask.com now utilizes a crawler based
technology search engine to provide search
results for all its users. Yet even with a
crawler based search engine, Ask.com delivers
high quality search results which keeps millions
of users visiting the Ask.com website daily
which makes Ask a top ranking search engine.
Once your site is listed on Google, then sooner
or later, Ask.com will find and index your
website as well. And if a user asks a question
concerning the products you sell, then your site
would show up on the Ask.com search results in
response to the users’ question. |
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AOL Search
search.aol.com
AOL is a leading-edge web service company
offering news, sports, stock quotes, weather
reports, movie reviews, TV trends and more. AOL
also offers free email, AIM access, online
radio, videos and horoscopes, all of which keeps
visitors and users coming back to AOL.com daily.
AOL search results are supplied by Googles’
database along with search results from AOL and
AOL partners as well. And AOL users are more
likely to use AOL Search over other major search
engines seeing that AOL provides the same search
results and offers personal services to AOL
users as well, such as free email and AIM. AOL
also has an editorial team creating unique
content experiences across the AOL network.
The AOL Homepage reaches 45 million U.S. users
per month with rich media placements and
topnotch content on one of the world's most
frequented pages which makes AOL another top
ranking search engine online.
And to be found on AOL, all you have to do is be
listed on Google. AOL users will find you on AOL
since AOL uses Google search results as well.
And as long as you’re site is listed on Google,
then AOL users will find your website online. |
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Other search engines
Although the search engines listed above are the
most important search engines in the world,
Google, Yahoo and Bing being the most important,
there are still more search engines which
receive a significant amount of traffic as well.
And many of the following search engines have
also managed to accumulate loyal users which
visit their home pages daily. However, just as
with every other search engine online, most, if
not all of the following search engines obtain
their search results from Google, Yahoo and
Bing. And if you’re listed on Google then you’ll
be listed on these as well:
AltaVista
www.altavista.com
Excite
www.excite.com
HotBot
www.hotbot.com
Lycos
www.lycos.com
WebCrawler
www.webcrawler.com
Dogpile
www.dogpile.com
My Web Search
www.mywebsearch.com
Metacrawler
www.metacrawler.com
Search.com
www.search.com
mamma.com
www.mamma.com
Gigablast
www.gigablast.com |
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