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At Distinctia we take an integral approach to site design
and development. Successful web sites are aesthetically pleasing to
visitors, comfortable to people with disabilities and favorable to the
search engines. We take pride in using strictly ethical marketing methods
to achieve top placement across the major search engines.
Let us show you how!
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MAJOR SEARCH ENGINE & DIRECTORY RELATIONSHIPS
Find Out Who Powers Whom Among Major Search Engines
Many among major search engines run their own search engine sites, but
their results are also powered by other search providers, who might have
their own search engine sites as well. The major search engine chart
below explains who powers whom. Other useful information on specific search
engine are also included.
Manual major search engine submitting and search engine positioning are
important parts of overall search engine marketing campaigns, but without
search engine optimization your website might rank high for all the wrong
terms on search engines, thus still being invisible to your potential
customers. Search Engine
Optimization >>
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Search Engine / Directory
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Google
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Engine. Crawler.
Directory powered by Open Directory Project (ODP).
Free submissions.
Paid results through Google Ads results.
Froogle, in Beta release, lists online stores products.
Provides listings for Main search results to Netscape, AOL, Iwon,
Infospace, HotBot, Excite, Go.com, and more.
Provides paid results to AOL, Ask Jeeves, Teoma, Iwon, Excite, About,
and AdSense Advertising Network.
Yahoo is an investor.
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Yahoo!
* Inktomi database is now the Yahoo Search Engine!
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Directory/Portal. Engine. Crawler.
Engine powered by Yahoo!.
Paid and free submissions (currently includes Inktomi's results
till April).
Paid results from Overture.
Results show paid submissions first.
Provides main results to HotBot, Excite, Go.com, MSN, Excite, Infospace,
About, and backup results to LookSmart, and Overture.
Directory powered by Yahoo!.
Paid and a few free submissions in Directory.
Human editors.
Owns Inktomi and Overture (thus AltaVista & AllTheWeb).
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MSN Search
* Inktomi database is now the Yahoo Search Engine!
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Portal.
Human editors.
Paid results from Overture.
Main results from Inktomi / Yahoo.
Results show paid submissions first.
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AOL Search
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Portal. Crawler.
Engine powered by Google.
Directory powered by Open Directory Project.
Paid results from Google Ads results.
Results show paid submissions first.
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Open
Directory Project
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Directory.
Free submissions.
Human editors.
Powers directory results for Google, AOL, Yahoo!, AlltheWeb, Lycos,
Netscape Search Directory.
Owned by AOL.
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AskJeeves
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Engine. Crawler.
Paid results from Google Ads.
Directory powered by Open Directory Project.
Powered by Teoma.
Paid submissions.
Results show paid submissions first.
Powers Infospace, Metacrawler, Webcrawler, Dogpile, HotBot and Excite.
Owns Direct Hit and Teoma.
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Teoma
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Engine. Crawler.
Paid submissions.
Paid results from Google Ads.
Directory powered by Open Directory Project.
Powers Ask Jeeves, Hot Bot, Infospace, Metacrawler, Webcrawler,
Dogpile and Excite.
Owned by AskJeeves.
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LookSmart
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Directory/Portal.
Paid submissions.
Human editors.
Changed from a directory to a pay-per-click service.
Results NOT based on highest bidder.
Top position depends on listing optimization.
Main results from Wisenut.
Powers Excite, Lycos, Infospace, CNN, Juno, and more.
Owns Wisenut.
Owns Zeal
- human powered directory.
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Wisenut
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Engine. Crawler.
Owned by LookSmart Directory.
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AltaVista
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Portal. Crawler.
Paid and free submissions.
Directory powered by ODP.
Paid results from AltaVista and Overture.
Results show paid submissions first.
Powers Excite.
Owned by Overture / Yahoo.
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AllTheWeb (FAST)
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Engine. Crawler.
Paid results from Overture.
Directory results powered by ODP.
Paid and free submissions.
Results show paid submissions first.
Powers All The Web, Lycos, HotBot, Excite, Infospace, Dogpile, Terra.com
and WebCrawler
Owned by Overture / Yahoo.
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Lycos
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Portal. Crawler.
Paid and free submissions.
Engine powered by AlltheWeb.
Directory results powered by ODP and Looksmart.
Paid results from Lycos InSite Adbuyer program (powered by FindWhat).
Results show paid submissions first.
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Hotbot
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Portal.
No submissions.
Offers simple and fast comparison searching to Google, FAST, Teoma,
and Inktomi.
Main results from Lycos, Inktomi, Fast, Google, AskJeeves/Teoma.
Paid results from Lycos.
Directory powered by ODP.
Owned by Lycos.
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Netscape Search
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Portal. Crawler.
Engine powered by Google.
Directory powered by Open Directory Project.
Paid results from Google Ads.
Results show paid submissions first.
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Iwon
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Portal.
Engine powered by Google.
Directory powered by Open Directory Project.
Paid results from Google.
Results show paid submissions first.
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Excite
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Portal.
Main results from Yahoo, Google, AskJeeves/Teoma, AltaVista, FindWhat.
Backup results from Inktomi and Fast.
Paid results from Overture, Google, FindWhat, About, and more.
Directory powered by Open Directory Project and About.
Results from many portals.
Powers WebCrawler, NBCi & Metacrawler.
Owned by InfoSpace.
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Overture
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Engine. PPC (Pay Per Click).
Results based on highest bidder.
Paid submissions.
Backup results from Inktomi.
Results fed to Yahoo!, MSN, AltaVista, Lycos, AllTheWeb, Infospace,
Excite, Gator.
Owned by Yahoo.
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FindWhat
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Engine. PPC (Pay Per Click).
Results based on highest bidder.
Paid submissions.
Provides paid results to UCmore.com, CNet's Search.com, Infospace,
NBCI, Mamma, Metacrawler, Excite, Lycos.
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Inktomi
* Inktomi database is now the Yahoo Search Engine!
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Engine. Crawler.
Provides main results to HotBot and backup results to MSN, LookSmart,
and Overture. Excite, Infospace, About.
What was thewhich currently provides results for:
Owned by Yahoo.
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InfoSpace
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Meta Search Engine.
Provides results to DogPile, Excite, NBCi, Metacrawler & Webcrawler.
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