Promote: Search Engines & Web Directories
This page contains a list of popular search engines and web directories, ans contains detailed information of their services.
Description Details
Name:
The name (and a link to) the search engine or web directory.
Add a URL page:
A page (with a link) that allows you to enter a page / site into a specific search engine.
Indexed pages:
The total number of web pages that the search engine has in its database.
META tag support:
Indicates whether the search engine supports META tags, a tool to provide a much better indication of the information contained on a particular page.
Database refresh:
Indicates how often the search engine spider updates the index for a particular page.
Submission time:
Amount of time it takes before a submitted page is actual indexed and searchable with the database.
Some Major Search Engines and Directories
| Name | Add a URL Page |
Indexed Pages (millions) |
Meta Tag Support |
Database Refresh |
Submission Time (Avg.)1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1: This data was obtained (with the exception of Google) by monitoring the results of 15 site submissions from Jan 1st 1997 through Feb 15, 1997. The results were then averaged (in days) and converted to weeks, rounding to the nearest whole week if necessary, your performance might vary. | |||||
| AltaVista | Yes | 30+ | Yes | > month | < 2 weeks |
| Excite | No | 40+ | No | 1 week | 2 weeks |
| Yes | 3,000+ | Yes | > month | 90 days | |
| HotBot | Yes | 54+ | Yes | > month | 4 weeks |
| Infoseek | No | 30 | Yes | 3 weeks | < 1 week |
| WebCrawler | No | 2 | Yes | 1 week | 4 weeks |
| Yahoo | Yes | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
[Updated: Sunday, November 18, 2007]
