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Alta Vista

A popular search engine with the largest database on the web, indexing more than 140 million pages. Its main URL is http://www.altavista.com. Until 1998, this search engine provided the search facility for Yahoo. Altavista indexes all the words in a web page, and new pages are normally added to the database fairly quickly, within a couple of working days. You are asked to submit just the main page of your site. The Altavista spider will then explore your site and index a representative sample of the pages. Some problems with spamming have been noticed. The use of keyword meta tags is penalized. Altavista places various alternative options before its search results, including suggested questions (using the Ask Jeeves service), RealNames. Paid entries are beginning to appear at the start of the search results.

YAHOO! SEARCH MARKETING

The more search engines your listings appear on, the more customers you attract. And only Yahoo! Search lists your business in the search results on eight of the top U.S. search properties: MSN, Yahoo!, AltaVista, InfoSpace, AlltheWeb and NetZero. LEARN MORE

SEARCH 123

Though smaller than the giants, Overture and Google, Search123 has a healthy reach of advertising market. We like that you can get started for $25 and there is no minimum monthly bid amount. LEARN MORE

FIND WHAT

FindWhat has many of the benefits of Overture, but it is still small enough to offer low bid amounts and customer support for advertisers. FindWhat has a wide reach with WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, DogPile Search.com, and more. LEARN MORE

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