Who are the Major Search Engines?
No surprise, Google currently holds the #1 spot. We
remember when Yahoo! was king and Google had yet to be born. In the
early days there were a dozen or more search engines considered to be
major players. Today, Google, Yahoo and MSN collectively dominate over
95% of all search engine traffic (keep in mind that AOL pulls their
results from Google as well). Thus, when it comes to
search engine optimization
and
search engine marketing
services, our main focus is generating top positions within the big
three - Google, Yahoo & MSN.
Google
also supplies results to EarthLink, AT&T and dozens of other partners.
Yahoo!
and MSN have since purchased Overture, AltaVista, FAST and Inktomi,
making them Google's #1 competitor.
Other smaller search engines include Ask, Dogpile,
Excite, Netscape, MetaCrawler, Search.com, AllTheWeb, Lycos and HotBot.
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