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SEARCH ENGINE RELATIONSHIP CHART

The following table illustrates the relationships between various search engine technologies and provides form constructs and related links.

AllTheWeb Search Engine


Receives feed from: Fast (primary), Dmoz (directory), & Overture (ppc)
Provides feed to: None
Note: This is the FAST engine, see below.

AltaVista Search Engine


Receives feed from: Yahoo (primary), Open Directory (directory), Overture (ppc)
Provides feed to: Excite (primary)

AOL Search Engine


Receives feed from: Google (free), Dmoz (directory), Google (ppc)
Provides feed to: None

AskJeeves Search Engine


Primary source: AskJeeves Crawler
Receives feed from: Teoma (secondary), Dmoz (directory), Google (ppc)
Provides feed to: Netscape (secondary)

DMOZ (The Open Directory Project)

Advanced Search

Free Inclusion

Primary source: Direct Inclusion, Human Edited
Receives feed from: None
Provides feed to: Lycos (directory), All The Web (directory), AOL (directory)
Hotbot (directory), Google (directory), Teoma (directory)
Lycos (directory), AskJeeves (directory), Altavista (directory)
Netscape (directory)

Excite Search Engine


Web Directory News Photos
META SEARCH

Receives feed from: Inktomi (secondary), Overture (ppc), Google (primary, ppc),
Dmoz (directory), Fast (secondary), Yahoo (primary), Altavista (primary), About (directory, ppc)
AskJeeves (primary), FindWhat (ppc), LookSmart (ppc)
Provides feed to: None

Fast

Primary Source: Fast Crawler
Receives feed from: None
Provides feed to: Hotbot (primary), Lycos (primary), Excite (secondary), Alltheweb (primary)
Note: Alltheweb is the accessible search portal

FindWhat Search Engine


PPC Inclusion

Primary source: PPC Sales
Provides feed to: Excite (ppc), Lycos (ppc)
Note: FindWhat is the search frontend for MIVA
Note: MIVA provides ppc content to 100s of commercial sites

Google Search Engine


Free Inclusion
PPC Inclusion

Primary source: Googlebot Crawler
Receives feed from: Dmoz (directory)
Provides feed to: AOL (primary, ppc), Netscape (primary, ppc), Iwon (primary, directory, ppc)
Teoma (ppc), AskJeeves (ppc), About (ppc), Lycos (ppc)

HotBot Search Engine


META SEARCH

Receives feed from: Inktomi (primary), Dmoz (directory), Fast (primary), 
Lycos (primary, ppc), Google (primary, ppc), AskJeeves (primary)
Provides feed to: None

Inktomi

Primary source: Inktomi Crawler
Receives feed from: None
Provides feed to: Hotbot (primary), Yahoo (secondary) Excite (secondary)
Looksmart (secondary), & Overture (secondary)
Note: Inktomi is Yahoo's crawler for secondary feeds

IWon Search Engine


Receives feed from: Google (primary, directory, ppc)
Provides feed to: None

Looksmart Directory


PPC Inclusion

Primary source: PPC Sales
Receives feed from: Inktomi (secondary)
Provides feed to: Lycos (directory, ppc), Excite (directory, ppc), WiseNut (primary, ppc)

Lycos Search Engine


Receives feeds from: Looksmart (primary, ppc), Fast (primary), Yahoo (secondary),
 Dmoz (directory), Google (ppc), Findwhat (ppc)
Provides feed to: Hotbot (primary, ppc)

MSN Search Engine


Free Inclusion
PPC Inclusion

Primary Source: MSNBOT Crawler
Receives feed from: Overture (ppc)
Provides feed to: None

Netscape Search Engine


Receives feed from: Google (primary), AskJeeves (secondary), Dmoz (directory), & Google (ppc)
Provides feed to: None

Overture Search Engine (PPC)


PPC Inclusion

Primary source: PPC Sales
Receives feed from: Yahoo (secondary), Inktomi (secondary)
Provides feed to: Alltheweb (ppc), Yahoo (ppc), Excite (ppc), Altavista (ppc), MSN (ppc)

Teoma Search Engine


Primary source: Teoma Crawler
Receives feed from: Dmoz (directory) & Google (ppc)
Provides feed to: AskJeeves (secondary)
Note: Teoma is AskJeeves crawler for secondary feeds

WiseNut Search Engine


Receives feeds from: LookSmart (primary, ppc)
Provides feeds to: None

Yahoo Search Engine


Free Inclusion
Fee Inclusion

Primary source: Yahoo Crawler
Receives feed from: Overture (ppc), Inktomi (secondary)
Provides feed to: Inktomi (primary*), Alltheweb (primary*),
Altavista (primary*), Overture (secondary*), Excite (primary*), Lycos (secondary*)
* Denotes customized partial feed

  • PRIMARY - Preferred feed
  • SECONDARY - Used when no suitable primary feed results
  • DIRECTORY - Catagorized feed
  • PPC - Paid insertions