i-Search Engines

Search engines and directories share a common goal in providing the searcher with relevant, meaningful results, however, there are many differences in their functionality.

A search engine might also have restrictions on the number of pages you can submit in a single day, perhaps only 5 or 10 pages are allowed to be submitted.

The ranking criteria can differ to determine who gets top placement so even though two search engines might use the same database they can provide different search results.

A number of articles and white papers have been written on this topic. Before the days of Google and Web 2.0 there was little attention paid to the topic of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In the early days of the Internet Era you could get a site listed on Yahoo! or Altavista by merely submitting it. As long as it wasn't too complicated for search engines to understand you could get your site listed within 2 to 3 days. But Yahoo!