(Best Internet Search Engine*)
YahooURL:
http://www.yahoo.com
The first-ranked search site (36.35
percent)
(Best Internet Search Engine*)
GoogleURL:
http://www.google.com
*Google would very soon be declared
as the BEST INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE
as it is rapidly gaining market
share among search sites and could
surpass long-time leader Yahoo
if the trend continues. As of
April 24, 2002, Google accounted
for 31.87 percent of all search
referrals worldwide - an all-time
high - compared to Yahoo, with
36.35 percent. Google has agreements
with both Yahoo and Netscape to
provide back-end search capability
for visitors conducting searches
on their sites. Google's back-end
service is not included in these
figures; only visitors that search
directly from Google's site are
included in Google's usage share.
Yahoo's use of Google's search
capabilities seems to have increased
Google' s visibility. That's because
the Google search engine powers
the Yahoo Web Page Results. According
to the latest press release on
May 1, 2002, Google has been selected
by AOL to provide editorial search
results and paid listings to AOL's
various search properties in the
United States, including AOL Search,
Netscape Search and CompuServe
Search.
MSNURL:
http://www.msn.com
Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT)
MSN has quietly risen to become
one of the top referring search
sites on the Web. Among U.S. surfers,
MSN is now the third-ranked search
site (12.73 percent) behind Yahoo
(36.35 percent) and Google (31.87
percent).
AOLURL:
http://www.aol.com
AOL and its affiliated Web sites
are one of the most trafficked
locations, drawing 91.9 million
visitors, according to Jupiter
Media Metrix, March 2002 report.
AOL Search allows its members
to search across the web and AOL's
own content from one place. The
main listings for categories and
web sites come from the Open Directory.
Inktomi also provides crawler-based
results, as backup to the directory
information. According to a press
release on May 1, 2002, Google
has been selected by AOL to provide
editorial search results and paid
listings to AOL's various search
properties in the United States,
including AOL Search, Netscape
Search and CompuServe Search.
America Online Inc.'s decision
to hire search engine leader 'Google'
to help its 34 million members
find their way around the Web
provided another reminder of Google's
rising popularity.
All TheWeb.com (FAST Search)URL:
http://www.alltheweb.com
AllTheWeb.com (also known as FAST
Search) launched in May 1999 has
one of the largest indexes of
the web. The site, also known
as AllTheWeb.com, is a showcase
for FAST's search technologies.
FAST's results are provided to
numerous portals, including those
run by Terra Lycos.
AltaVistaURL:
http://www.altavista.com
AltaVista, founded in 1995 is
one of the oldest crawler-based
search engines on the web. It
has a large index of web pages
and a wide range of power searching
commands. It also offers news
search, shopping search and multimedia
search. Currently, it reaches
over 45 million visitors worldwide.
LycosURL:
http://www.lycos.com
Lycos started out as a search
engine, depending on listings
that came from spidering the web.
In April 1999, it shifted to a
directory model similar to Yahoo.
Some of their listings come from
the ODP, Fast Search/AllTheWeb
with sponsored listings shown
at the top of the search results
pages coming from Overture.com.
HotBotURL:
http://www.hotbot.com
HotBot launched in May 1996 as
Wired Digital's entry into the
search engine market. In October
1998, Lycos acquired the competing
HotBot search service, which continues
to be run separately. In most
cases, HotBot's first page of
results comes from the Direct
Hit service (Now renamed as “Teoma”)
and then secondary results come
from the Inktomi search engine,
which is also used by other services.
It gets its directory information
from the Open Directory project.
Netscape SearchURL:
http://search.netscape.com
Netscape Search's results come
primarily from the Open Directory
and Netscape's own "Smart
Browsing" database, which
does an excellent job of listing
"official" websites.
Secondary results come from Google.
At the Netscape Netcenter portal
site, other search engines are
also featured.
Overture: (formerly known as Goto.com)URL:
http://www.overture.com
Solely a Pay Per Click search
engine, with Overture you choose
keywords/ phrases that you want
your site to appear under and
try to outbid the competition
for a top billing. The higher
you bid, the higher your URL on
the search results page. They
recently lost the contract to
supply sponsored links to AOL
Search, but they do still provide
search results for AOL's Europe
Net properties in the UK, France
and Germany.
iWonURL:
http://www.iwon.com
iWon's results come from both
Overture & Inktomi. iWon gives
away daily, weekly and monthly
prizes in a marketing model unique
among the major services. It launched
in Fall 1999.
Info Space Network(Excite, Web
Crawler, Meta Crawler, Go2net,
Dogpile)
InfoSpace, Inc. is a provider
of wireless and Internet software
and application services. With
Excite.com and WebCrawler.com,
InfoSpace's new meta-search product
highlights the strengths of many
of the Web's major search properties
such as Network of sites such
as Metacrawler, Excite, Dogpile,
Webcrawler, go2net etc.
ExciteURL:
http://www.excite.com
Excite is now a meta-search engine!
Bought by @home a few years back,
and once a major player, Excite
went bankrupt and hence has now
been acquired by Infospace. In
May 2002, Infospace announced
the launch of its next generation
meta-search product that can be
accessed at Excite (www.excite.com)
and WebCrawler (www.webcrawler.com).
InfoSpace's meta-search technology
allows users to search multiple
engines at once, returning comprehensive
and highly relevant results fast.The
new InfoSpace meta-search product
at Excite.com and WebCrawler.com
will include results from leading
search companies and properties,
including FAST, AltaVista, Overture,
About, Ask Jeeves, FindWhat, LookSmart,
Sprinks, Open Directory and Inktomi.
Web Crawler: URL:
http://www.webcrawler.com
WebCrawler opened to the public
on April 20, 1994. It was started
as a research project at the University
of Washington. America Online
purchased it in March 1995 and
was the online service's preferred
search engine until Nov. 1996.
That was when Excite, a WebCrawler
competitor, acquired the service.
Since Excite was bought by Infospace,
it continues to run WebCrawler
as an independent search engine.
