I do search engine optimization as a big chunk of my job so I could type forever on this subject. In my opinion Google is still the best, but the gap isn't what it was about a year or two ago when the deficit was huge. I like the methodology behind Teoma a lot and the unheralded Wisenut has amazing potential (in fact, I'd almost wager that if its index were the same size as Google's it could easily be equal to Google, however its index is only a fraction the size of Google's.) FAST, aka alltheweb.com, also turns in decent results and I use it quite a bit since its index is supposedly larger than Google's. Yahoo just bought Inktomi so it'll be interesting to see what they do with that technology.
For the majority of searches, which tend to be very generic in nature, Google is great due to its overwhelming dependence upon link popularity thus pointing people to supposed hub sites. However, for specific searches Google really isn't that much better than any of the other search engines. The main thing it has going for it here which still makes it seem that much stronger is that its index is so gigantic in comparison to most of its rivals. Give them all the same size index and the difference on a lot of the more specific searches would nearly go away.
For the majority of searches, which tend to be very generic in nature, Google is great due to its overwhelming dependence upon link popularity thus pointing people to supposed hub sites. However, for specific searches Google really isn't that much better than any of the other search engines. The main thing it has going for it here which still makes it seem that much stronger is that its index is so gigantic in comparison to most of its rivals. Give them all the same size index and the difference on a lot of the more specific searches would nearly go away.
Originally posted by: JC
I used to use Infoseek (remember that?!?), AltaVista, then Yahoo.....but Google's page loads fastest (no clutter), and really finds the stuff....and less paid-for results. Just this old guy's opinionJC
Infoseek used to be the best in my opinion (like 5 years ago). I use Google now. Ah, the memories
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Google has a webcrawler,, you put in your website address, some comments and within a month it will automaticlly search through your site.
I used it and it works, got my site listed within a couple of weeks.
Yahoo has one too, but right now I can't find it
But it used to be at the bottom page of a category, saying "Suggest A site".
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