RESOURCES
Search Engine Comparison Chart By Portal
| Engine Name/Portal Location | Engine Type | Searches per Day/% reach | Search #s/Size | Fed By | Feeds | Submission Costs | Lag Time | Key Ranking Factors | Package Coverage |
| Yahoo! www.yahoo.com | Directory | 34% | > 1 M sites | Main Results: Own Database (Category matches, Web Sites) Additional Results: Google (Web Pages) Sponsored Listings: Overture | - | $299/year (commercial sites) | 7 business days | Good choice of description text and categories. | LVL I |
| MSN www.msn.com | Directory/ Aggregate | 37% | Main Results: Own Database, LookSmart Secondary Results: Direct Hit, Inktomi | - | |||||
| Google www.google.com | Crawler Engine | 130M/28% | Main Results: Own Database Directory Listings: Open Directory | Netscape, Yahoo | - | 6 weeks | Page Content, Links | ||
| AOL search.aol.com | Aggregate | 22.4 | Main Results: Open Directory Additional Results: Inktomi | - | |||||
| Ask Jeeves www.askjeeves.com | Directory | 4M/15.7 | Main Results: Own Database Numbered Listings: Direct Hit | - | |||||
| LookSmart www.looksmart.com | Directory | 9.2 | Own Database, Inktomi | MSN, Altavista, Excite, iWon | $49 + 0.15/click, min $15/month | Good choice of description text and categories. | LVL I | ||
| InfoSpace (including Excite, Dogpile, Metcrawler) www.infospace.com | 8.9 | ||||||||
| Excite www.excite.com | Crawler Engine | Main Results: Own Database Directory Listings: Looksmart | WebCrawler | ||||||
| Netscape www.netscape.com | Aggregate | 8.2 | Main Results: Open Directory Secondary Results: Google | ||||||
| Overture www.overture.com | Paid Directory | 5M/6.9 | Main Results: Paid Advertisers Secondary Results: Inktomi | Yahoo, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, Direct Hit, Excite, Go, iWon, Lycos, MSN, Netscape | LVLI? | ||||
| Altavista www.altavista.com | Crawler Engine | 50M | Main Results: Own Crawler Directory Listings: LookSmart | - | $39/page/6 months | ||||
| Direct Hit www.directhit.com | Crawler Engine | 20M | Main Results: Own Database Directory Listings: Open Directory | HotBot, Ask Jeeves, iWon, MSN, Lycos | |||||
| Inktomi No Portal | Crawler Engine | 80 M | - | iWon, AOL, HotBot, Overture, Looksmart, MSN | 2 days | $39/page/year | |||
| FAST alltheweb.com | Crawler Engine | 12M | - | Lycos | 2 days | $30/page/year | |||
| HotBot www.hotbot.com | Aggregate | Main Results: Direct Hit Secondary Results: Inktomi Directory Listings: Open Directory | - | ||||||
| iWon www.iwon.com | Aggregate | Main Results: Inktomi Directory Listings: Top 10 results: Direct Hit | - | ||||||
| Lycos www.lycos.com | Aggregate | Open Directory, Fast, Direct Hit | - | ||||||
| Open Directory www.dmoz.org | Directory | Own Database | AOL Search, Netscape Search, Lycos, Direct Hit, HotBot, Google | LVL1? | |||||
| Teoma www.teoma.com | Crawler Engine | Own Database | Ask Jeeves | 1 week | $30/page/year |
For March 2002, there were an estimated 114 million Internet users online in the US at work or at home, 80 percent of whom are estimated to have made some type of search request during the month.
