You’ve probably heard of Google, Yahoo and MSN’s search engines, but they’re not the only search engines that can increase your visibility and revenues. What about AltaVista, Lycos, A9 and Ask?
This list of search engines is just a selection of the many thousands out there. With our search engine optimisation solutions we’ll ensure your website is listed on the top search engines that will most benefit your business.
A9
A9 provides product searches for leading online shopping websites such as Amazon. Search results come from Microsoft’s Live Search.
www.a9.com
All The Web
All The Web is a search tool that offers a variety of specialised search tools. All The Web draws its results from the Yahoo database.
www.alltheweb.com
AltaVista
AltaVista was one of the first search engines back in 1995. AltaVista draws its results from the Yahoo database.
www.altavista.com
AltaVistaUK
AltaVista UK is the UK version which offers the ability to search UK sites only or Worldwide.
www.altavista.co.uk
AOL Search
AOL Search is highly significant due to the large number of AOL subscribers. The main listings come from Google.
www.aol.com
AOL UK
AOL UK is the UK version which offers the ability to search UK sites only or Worldwide.
www.aol.co.uk
Ask
Ask is designed so that users can ask questions in plain English. Data is also supplied to Excite and Lycos.
www.ask.com
Ask UK
The UK version of Ask producing results more significant to UK users.
www.ask.co.uk
BBC Web Search
The search function on the extremely popular BBC website. www.bbc.co.uk
Dogpile
Dogpile compiles its results by searching other popular engines such as Google, Yahoo and Live Search.
www.dogpile.com
EuroSeek
EuroSeek is a European based search engine focusing solely on Europe. It compiles its results by searching other popular engines such as Yahoo, Google and Live Search.
www.euroseek.com
Excite
Founded as Architext in 1994, Excite is one of the oldest search engines with results powered by Google, Ask and Yahoo.
www.excite.co.uk
Go/Infoseek
Go is a portal site with results provided by Yahoo.
www.go.com
Google
Google is the most popular search engine in the world that uses link popularity. Google provides its data to other search engines including AOL, Euroseek, Excite, Netscape, and WebCrawler.
www.google.com
Google UK
Google UK is the UK version which offers the ability to search UK sites only or Worldwide.
www.google.co.uk
HotBot
HotBot allows users to select whether results are drawn from Microsoft Live Search or Ask.
www.hotbot.com
HotBot UK
HotBot UK is the UK version of Hotbot which offers the ability to search UK sites only or Worldwide.
www.hotbot.co.uk
Live Search
Live Search is a search engine from Microsoft. Results are powered by the same algorithms as MSN.com and MSN.co.uk search engines.
www.live.com
Lycos
Lycos is one of the oldest search engines, established back in 1995. Results powered by Ask and Yahoo.
www.lycos.com
Lycos UK
Lycos UK is the UK version which offers the ability to search UK sites only or Worldwide.
www.lycos.co.uk
Mirago
Mirago is a European search engine providing results for 10 European countries.
www.mirago.co.uk
Miva
Miva is a global pay per click engine with results displayed on numerous search engines including Yahoo, Lycos and Ask.
www.miva.com
MSN Search
MSN Search is Microsoft's search engine, index and crawler. MSN’s indexing and crawler technologies are also used on its sister site Live Search and BBC Search.
www.msn.com
MSN UK
MSN UK is the UK version of MSN Search designed to produce results more significant to UK users.
www.msn.co.uk
Netscape
Netscape is a web portal, directory, search engine. Results are sourced from Google via AOL Search.
www.netscape.com
Netscape UK
Netscape UK is the UK version designed to produce results more significant to UK users.
www.netscape.co.ukOpen Directory Project
The Open Directory Project uses the most comprehensive human-reviewed directory on the web. Many search engines and directories use Open Directory data including Euroseek, Google, HotBot and Splut.
www.dmoz.org
Search.com
Search.com is a meta search engine operated by CNET. Results are drawn from a large number of sources including Google, Ask, MSN and The Open Directory Project.
www.search.com
Tiscali UK
Tiscali UK is the UK version of the European directory, search engine and general portal. Search results sourced from Google.
www.tiscali.co.uk
UK Plus
UK Plus launched in 1997 as a directory featuring reviews of websites in the UK. Results are sourced by Yahoo through Overture.
www.ukplus.co.uk WebCrawler
WebCrawler launched in 1994 and provides results from many of the top search engines including Ask, Google, Overture and Yahoo.
www.webcrawler.com
Wikia Search
Wikia Search was formed in January 2008. It’s an open source search engine with results based on user feedback.
alpha.search.wikia.com Yahoo
Yahoo launched in late 1994 and provides a search service in addition to its directory. Yahoo results also appear on Excite, WebCrawler, Alta Vista and All The Web.
www.yahoo.com
Yahoo UK & Ireland
Yahoo UK & Ireland is the UK and Irish version which offers the ability to search UK/Ireland or Worldwide.
www.yahoo.co.uk 
