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Lets face it, Google is the dominating search engine, and will most likely continue to be that in the foreseeable future, there is thousands of smaller search engines that are working hard to gain a piece of the search marketplace for themselves.

The English language market for search is dominated by a few big behemoths. According to comScore the market for search in October 2009 was dominated by Google (65.4%), Yahoo (18.0%), Microsoft (9.9%), Ask (3.9%) and AOL (2.9%), followed by MapQuest, eBay, craigslist, Fox, MySpace, Facebook and Amazon.

With the search market valued at $300 Billion that makes every single 1% worth $3 Billion when selling the company and you would do very well by conquering just a 0.1% slice of that cake. The number of start up search engines is only going to increase with more venture capital wanting a piece of the market.

This is the top 7 search engines that the 2010 blog headlines are likely to gossip around. New or old, they all have in common that they deliver good search results and they have been innovating in 2009.

Cuil

With two ex Googlers, Anna Patterson and Russell Power, in the management team and by claiming to be the worlds biggest search engine Cuil has a lot to deliver.

Overloaded servers generating low quality search results hampered the  2008 launch giving Cuil a fair amount of negative media attention but of you try a search today you’ll find the search results are really good and there is an explore by category function that is among the best I’ve seen.

DuckDuckGo

The search engine with the silly name and a cute interface uses a combination of Yahoo BOSS, Wikipedia and it’s own crawler DuckDuckBot to give you both hard information in a Zero-click information box, categories to further refine searches and the actual search results.

Founded by Gabriel Weinberg, who started and then sold The Names Database, DuckDuckGo is a private venture that has grown steadily since it launched in September 2008. Watch out for this search engine in 2010, it has a nice niche carved out for itself

Spezify

A totally cool search engine, Spezify. The search results are showcased as images and newspaper clippings pasted all over the computer screen, the clippings having one paragraph quotes from the result web site. By scanning some of the clippings you get a excellent overview of the matter you are researching and can make an informed decision on which search results to visit and read more about.

It’s also a great brainstorming tool. You’ll get a ton of new ideas for your article or blog post just by entering your keyword into the search box and watching the resulting mix of clippings and photos.

Secret Search Engine Labs

This search engine ranks sites differently than the big mainstream search engines. As Google gives priority to aged and big sites, many new, small and relevant sites are hard to find in their search results. The algorithm of Secret Search Engine Labs ranks sites according to on page factors and link anchor text and removes spam pages using the trademarked CashRank method.

A search engine that puts more weight on web page content than on site authority and that provides useful info to webmasters on how the search results are calculated, Secret Search Engine Labs was started in 2007 by Finnish software engineer and entrepreneur Simon Byholm with the aim to grow slowly into the best search engine on the Web.

Bing

First there was MSN Search, then Live Search and now with the latest re-branding we have Bing. With a forceful marketing campaign Microsoft has managed to grab almost 10% of the market for search. The media attention during the re-launch has fueled innovation adding new features like the daily changing background image, suggested topics and trends.

With Microsoft working fiercely to increase Bing’s market share you should watch them closely during 2010.

Blekko

This is a brand new start-up that is keeps it’s mouth shut almost as well as Old Google when you ask about the what and the when of their new search engine. The strong management team with ex-employees from Topix, Google, AOL and Netscape Search has me wondering if they have something fascinating going on.

We are still waiting eagerly  for Blekkos public launch. It was promised for the end of 2009 though so you can assume that it will make some serious headlines in 2010. We can only hope it’s good and exciting news.

Monitter

Monitter is not a classic search engine but a real-time Twitter search where you can monitor several keywords and see the tweets containing those keywords in real time as they are tweeted. When you need to monitor you niche or area of expertise or if you just want to track the conversation this is a neat tool.

There Are More Search Engines, Right?

I think you know that Google is innovating and it’s pretty sure they will make some noise in 2010. Wolfram Alpha is fascinating as it is the only major search engine that makes the results from data.

There’s a multitude of social, real-time or just weird search engines starting up and there’s no telling if one of them develops into the next Twitter and makes a permanent mark in the search market. You’ll find more information about these and many more at AltSearchengines.com

There is finally signs that we could see big changes in the search engine landscape after years of rule by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. There’s new technology sprouting like mushrooms in every nook of the Net. There’s semantic search, visual presentation, real time search and socially powered search engines created. If nothing else is achieved at least the old behemoths will have to adopt the new technology to stay competitive, giving us better search results in the process.

This is a quick tutorial done by Sam’s Web Guide on how to submit your websites to 3 of the major search engines – Google, Bing & Yahoo

It is very important to get your website listed in the major search engines. This is a basic free submission that allows web users to access your website through organic search, provided that their search keywords match the ‘crawler accessible’ content you have on your site and your website has already been crawled and indexed. (We will discuss key word selection and search engine optimization in another post) A crawler/bot is a term used for search engine applications that search the web in a methodical and automatic manner for websites and new content and creates an index of the sites found. A copy of your site is actually stored on the search engine servers for easy access later.

Let’s get to it:

For Google Submissions go to www.google.com/addurl/ and simply add your site in the form provided, as shown below.

Once you have entered your site’s URL, hit the submit button and you will be good to go.

An important note: It is not guaranteed that your site will be crawled immediately, or as stated by the search engines – “any at all” considering that there are millions of sites on the web and once you submit your site, the request gets placed in a queue. Generally, with my experience, they always do eventually crawl sites submitted. It could takes weeks before your site shows up in searches though.

Tip: Using the google webmaster tools and submitting a site map there will help google to index your site much faster. After creating a webmaster tools profile for your site here: www.google.com/webmasters select your site’s profile name and then at the lower right corner of the page you will see a link to submit a sitemap.

On Google’s submission site, you will find lots of other useful links and guidelines on how to manage your web presence and the associated rules. I chose to refer to Google first because they have the most in-depth explanations of the different web standards and how to ensure that your website is a success through search. Very user-friendly.

For Bing.com Submissions, Microsoft’s search brand, go to www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx. The Bing brand is fairly new, but it does the job.

For Yahoo.com Submissions go to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit.

Once you have submitted your site you are on your way to getting new visitors to your site. Do not take search for granted or rely on search alone to bring new site viewers though, as web search can be more competitive than what’s seen on the surface.

There are thousands of search engines active on the internet and manual submission on all may not be possible and some search engines are for specific types of content. If you wish to find more search engines, simply search for them or you may visit Search Engine Watch to see a more in-depth listing.

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Ah the wonderful world of search engine optimization and search engine marketing. I could write all day and night about it (and sometimes I do!).

But the world of SEO and SEM can be confusing (that’s an understatement!) especially if you are somewhat new to the industry. Everyone and his or her brother think they know what the secret is to getting a top search engine ranking and all the free, highly targeted traffic that comes with it.

But the truth is, very few people really know – and the ones that do know, don’t *really* know. Only the search engines themselves really know, the rest of us just trial and error figure it out and piece things together that *mostly* work today.

But then the search engines go and change the rules, and we have to start all over again learning the new rules (that the search engines never tell us!).

And besides, the people that are really good at figuring out these rules and applying them to get good rankings are usually out there DOING it! They are making lots and lots of money either ranking their own web sites and cashing in that way, or working for clients and charging an arm and a leg.

They don’t have time to sit and explain their secrets to you, and they wouldn’t want to anyway! A secret is no longer a secret if everyone knows about it!

Ah, you ask, but you Jason are talking to us today?! What gives?

Well it’s true, I am talking to you today, but I’m not telling you my secrets! I’m here today to share some basic information, common knowledge that you need to know to do any SEO or SEM work but won’t get me in trouble for giving away the store (if you know what I mean!).

So the first thing many people ask me is this: which search engines should I focus on?

That’s an excellent question. There are thousands of search engines out there, millions maybe even. But the fact is, 99.9% of them are completely useless and worthless because no one uses them to search for web sites!

Instead, you really want to focus on just the main three search engines. Those are, in order of importance, Google, Yahoo and Bing. If you have lots of free time you can also focus on ask.com but they are not hardly worth it anymore.

The big three are the ones to focus on, and maybe even just the big 2, Google and Bing, because Yahoo and Bing signed a deal late last year 2009 to allow Yahoo to use Bing search results as the primary search results on Yahoo. So for all intents and purposes, when this agreement goes into effect in the first quarter 2010, there will be no more Yahoo search engine. (Ie, if you get your site listed in Bing, it will show up in Yahoo because Yahoo will be showing Bing search results).

So there you have it, focus on Google and Bing. I usually just focus on Google, because they have 65% of the search traffic in the world and Bing/Yahoo have another 30%.

And see…I haven’t given away any trade secrets at all!

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