Main Search Engines

1. Google:
• Google's main search results are provided solely from Google's search technology,offering results from no other engine or source.
• The Google Directory is comprised of listings from The Open Directory Project (ODP,DMOZ). • Google provides results to AOL, Netscape, IWon, Teoma, AskJeeves and Yahoo! Web Results.
2. Yahoo!:
• Paid and free submissions. - Paid results come from Overture. - Provides main results to HotBot, Excite, Go.com, MSN, Excite, Infospace. • About and backup results to LookSmart, and Overture.
3. MSN:
• MSN provides sponsored results from paid advertising sources. • MSN provides primary results from LookSmart. • Secondary results are provided from Inktomi.
4. AOL:
• AOL results for "Recommended Sites" are listings that have been hand picked by AOL editors. • AOL "Sponsored Sites" are supplied by Google AdWords. • AOL "Matching Sites" are supplied by Google results. The results in AOL may not always match the results in Google as Google often updates their database more frequently. • AOL directory listings are provided by the ODP.

5. Alta Vista:
• Alta Vista receives sponsored listings from Overture and Alta Vista's own advertisers. • Alta Vista will use results from their own database for the main search results. • Alta Vista obtains its directory results from LookSmart.
6. HotBot:
• HotBot results contain three categories: Top 10 Results, Directory Results & General Web Results. • Top 10 results include popular sites and searches. • Directory results are hand-picked by human editors. • Web Results are provided by Inktomi. • HotBot offers the capability to search the HotBot database, Lycos, Google and / or AskJeeves all from one location with the click of a button.
7. IWon:
• IWon Spotlight results are comprised of web pages found within IWon or web sites that IWon has a direct business partnership with. • IWon Sponsored Listings are provided by a variety of paid advertisements through third party pay for performance listings including Google, AdWords and Overture. • IWon Web Site Listings are powered by Google. • IWon Shopping Listings are provided by Dealtime.com
8. Lycos:
• Lycos provides directory results from The Open Directory Project. • Lycos provides sponsored listings from Overture. • Lycos provides Web Results from Fast and from the Lycos network.
9. Netscape:
• Netscape's sponsored links are provided by Google AdWords. • Netscape's matching results include sites that are handpicked by ODP editors mixed with results powered by Google.
10. AllTheWeb:
• AllTheWeb crawls and index ODP results. • AllTheWeb powers the main search results in Lycos. • AllTheWeb provides results from Lycos. • AllTheWeb also powers the Lycos advanced search feature, the FTP search feature and their MP3 specialty engine.
Directories:
1. Dmoz: Directory listings are provided to AOL, Google, Lycos and Netscape and many other web sites, directories & portals.
2. Yahoo!: Yahoo! Directory listings are supplied by Yahoo! editors and require a fee for commercial sites.Yahoo directory results are provided to Alta Vista.

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