| Search
Engines / Metacrawlers |
Partnership
|
| AltaVista |
Uses
LookSmart and the Open Directory Project. They are also taking
their "Sponsor Listings" from Overture. |
| AOL
Netfind |
Uses
Inktomi for US & Canada and Uses Lycos for Europe & ODP |
| Ask
Jeeves |
Building
own index, search results are then manipulated by Direct Hit
with meta data from Alta, Excite, WebCrawler, and Overture.com
(now owns AskJeeves) |
| Direct
Hit |
Using
own database with supplemental results from ODP, and AskJeeves.
Influences searches on HotBot, AskJeeves, iWon, ZDNET, and
MSN. |
| Excite |
Uses
listing form Looksmart directory. |
| Fast
(alltheweb.com) |
Feeds
Lycos. |
| Go2Net |
Formerly
called Metacrawler uses a variety of search engines including
(Alta, DirectHit, Excite, Google, Overture, Infoseek, Lycos, Looksmart,
WebCrawler, and the only Meta search to use Thunderstone. |
| Google |
Helps
Netscape Netcenter, gets from ODP, and feeds non-directory
results for Yahoo |
| |
|
| HotBot |
Uses
ODP Primary results from Inktomi, ODP Directory, with results
manipulated by Direct Hit |
| InfoSeek |
Helps
Search.com and is now the major engine behind GO.com. Has
own directory. |
| Iwon |
Gets
from Inktomi with directory listings by Looksmart, and the
whole thing manipulated by Direct Hit. |
| Inktomi |
Helps
Hotbot, iWon, AOL search, Snap, GOO.jp, Looksmart, MSN Search
and Overture. Also has dozens of customers in Europe and the Far
East. |
| Magellan |
Uses
WebCrawler |
| Netscape
Search |
Uses,
Google, ODP, About.com |
| Northern
Light |
Doesn't
use other engine result. This is the second biggest index,
covering 39% of the web. |
| Webcrawler |
It
is a part of Excite |
| Search.com |
Gets
from Infoseek |
| Directory
Search Engines |
| Yahoo |
Uses
Google for non-directory matches |
| Open
Directory Project |
Feeds
Netscape Search, Alta, Hotbot, Lycos, Direct Hit, and thousands
of smaller sites. |
| LookSmart |
Gets
Search results from Inktomi and serves AltaVista directory,
Excite, Iwon, and Search.msn. |
| NBCi
(Snap) |
NBCi,
formerly known as Snap,uses search result from Inktomi. But
now relies on results from Overture.com (GoTo.com) |
| Lycos |
Now
uses ODP Directory and Fast (AllTheWeb) search results. |
| Search
MSN |
Directory
results from LookSmart. Results from Inktomi and Direct Hit. |
| Pay
Per Click Search Engines |
| FindWhat |
Because
of new agreement FindWhat.com listings will appear in Excite.com
and WebCrawler.com search results |
| Overture.com
(GoTo.com) |
Gets
from Inktomi for non-paid results. |
