Popular search engines

This is a listing of the top search engines on the world wide web.

Google: http://www.google.com /

Google is above and beyond, the most popular search engine in the world. One reason for this may be that they have the most accurate search results, while keeping the interface simple and uncluttered. Quite a different approach from competitors, who have chosen to do the opposite. Google, above and beyond the rest, has an excellent algorithm of ranking pages returned from a result. I'm a big Google fan, aren't we all? As a webmaster, the only search engine I REALLY care about is Google. Google rocks!

Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com

Yahoo! Is one of the oldest search engines on the web, and is second in popularity to Google. The search engine seems secondary, as the search page is cluttered. While I'm not a big fan of Yahoo search, I think creating the Yahoo groups was a winning idea.

AltaVista: http://www.altavista.com

Many that have access to web logs could have seen a spider named 'scooter' accessing their pages. Scooter used to be a more recent sort of Scooter is now crawling the web. Whichever spider AltaVista uses, it is one of the biggest search websites on the net today, next to Google. It'll customarily take a couple of months for AltaVista to notice your whole site, though the past few months scooter has not been deep crawling too well. Unlike Google, AltaVista will only crawl and index one link deep, so it needs a good quantity of time to notice your site dependent on how giant your internet site is. AltaVista gets almost all of its results from its own index, however they do pull the top five results of each search from Overture.

Inktomi: http://ww.inktomi.com

Inktomi's acceptance grew one or two years back as they powered the secondary search database that had driven Yahoo. Since that time, Yahoo as switched to using Google as their secondary search and backend database, however Inktomi is just as well-liked now, as they were one or two years gone, if not more so. Their spiders are named "Slurp", and different variants of Drink crawls the web many alternative times across the month, as Inktomi powers many sites search results. There's not much more to Inktomi then that. Swig puts heavy weight on Title and outline tags, and will not often deep crawl a site. Sip often only spider's pages that are submitted to its index. Inktomi provides results to a number of sites. A number of these are America Online, MSN, Hotbot, Looksmart, About, Goto, CNet, Geocities, NBCi, ICQ and plenty more.

Lycos: http://www.lycos.com

Lycos is one of the oldest search websites on the web today, next to Altavista and Yahoo. Their spider, named "T-Rex", crawls the web and provides updates to the Lycos index from time to time. The FAST crawler provides results for Lycos as well as its own database. The Lycos crawler doesn't weigh META tags to heavily, instead it depends on its own ranking algorithm to rank pages returned in results. The URL, META title, text headings, and word frequency are just one or two of the strategies Lycos uses to rank pages. Lycos does support pages with Frame content. any page that isn't at least 75 words in content isn't indexed.

AOL Search: http://www.aol.com

America Online confirmed a multiyear deal with Google for Web search results and accompanying ad-sponsored links, ending relations with pay-for-performance service Overture Services and Inktomi, its algorithmic search supplier of just about three years take a while to register with these search sites as fast as possible and watch the traffic grow!

The most popular search engine are Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Inktomi, Lycos, and AOL.