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In Alphabetical Order

AOL Search
The AOL "external" version gets its listings from the Open Directory, Inktomi and spider results as backup to the directory information. Members are allowed to search AOL content as well.

AltaVista
AltaVista is definitely one of the major concerns when getting your site listed. It has comprehensive, wide ranging coverage and a wide range of search options that makes it popular among users. In addition to spider-based matches, it allows you to search specifically for news, shopping, and multimedia. It also pulls results from LookSmart.

Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves is a human-powered search service that tries to answer exact questions from the user and direct them to the proper pages.

Direct Hit
Direct Hit measures how many clicks a site receives during a search on Direct Hit and on other sites such as HotBot, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves.

Excite
Excite uses spidering technology for it's web page index, and also gives access to directory results from LookSmart.

Fast Search / All The Web
FAST Search has one of the largest indexes on the internet. Also known as AllTheWeb.com, this is a showcase for FAST Search's technologies.

Google
Link popularity is the key to Google. Google uses its own massive index and also provides results from Yahoo and Netscape.

GoTo
GoTo is an increasingly popular "pay-per-click" directory. Web Page owners can bid on their ranking for particular search terms.

HotBot
Because of its many advanced searching features, HotBot is popular with researchers. HotBot's first page of results usually come from Direct Hit and Inktomi. It's directory information comes from the Open Directory project.

IWon
Why is this one popular with users? DUHHHH... iWon gives away daily, weekly and monthly prizes in an innovative marketing exploit. It's directory comes directly from Inktomi.

Inktomi
HotBot was the first to be powered by Inktomi and many others have followed. It is a little different in that it only provides its indexes to other search engines and directories. Users do not search Inktomi directly. For this reason, results from Inktomi may differ because of the user engines particular search parameters.

LookSmart
LookSmart is a directory of web pages reviewed by humans. It also provides directory results to MSN Search, Excite and many others.

Lycos
Lycos's main listings come from the Open Directory project, and then secondary results come from the FAST Search engine and Direct Hit.

MSN Search
MSN Search service is powered by LookSmart's directory of web sites and gets its secondary results from Inktomi. Some sites are also pulled from RealNames and Direct Hit.

Netscape Search
Netscape Search's web page matches come mainly from it's own index, the Open Directory and also gets some results from Google.

Northern Light
Northern Light is another researcher's favorite because of its large index and ability to gather documents by topic. It also has "special collection" documents from thousands of sources, including newswires, magazines and databases. While these documents can be searched, there is a charge of up to $4 to view them.

Open Directory
The Open Directory uses a gathering volunteers to review and edit its catalog. Netscape, Lycos and AOL Search all utilize the Open Directory's index.

Yahoo!
The oldest major web site directory on the internet is Yahoo! and it is the web's most popular search, making it the most important one to be listed in. It has the largest human-compiled index of the web, with over 1 million sites listed. If a search fails to find a match within it's own listings, Yahoo! supplements its results with those from Google. Google matches are also shown after all Yahoo matches.