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Internet search engines provide free, targeted traffic for websites. They “crawl” the World Wide Web via the use of their proprietary programs called “spiders” visiting the different web domains through the links they find on other websites and a given website’s own links. They use their own algorithms (principles on which the Internet search engines are programmed) to determine the most suitable web pages to display for a given search term.

There are many Internet search engines out there today (as a matter of fact there are software out there that will enable you to start your own search engine), but only a few matter at all.

Internet Search Engines Ranked and Rated:

No. 1. Google - Google.com has been around since 1999. It took a few years for it to become a household name ahead of Yahoo, bit now it holds the number one position with the others lagging far behind. There are really good reasons for Google (as in the search engine, not the company) being as successful as it is. If you own a website and if you have ever tried to drive traffic to it using the search engines, then you know that once it appears on Google’s radar it will index it (puts the pages and their contents in it’s database) very fast. If you own a bolg like mine (Tube108.com) whose new entries get submitted to blog directories and RSS feed directories the moment you publish them will be spidered within hours by Google. It helps that these directories themselves are very popular with Internet search engines. As a matter of fact, my website gets spidered by Google several times every hour! It is not uncommon for an article to receive traffic the next day I post it to my blog through this Internet search engine and rank well within just a few days.

It is by far the most sophisticated search engine today both in terms of catering to the end user and as far as working with the webmasters.

No. 2. Yahoo! - The Yahoo Internet search engine is still number 2 in the business. Its success is only possible due to the popularity of the portal itself. A large number of people use it, because they use the other features of Yahoo as well, and that keeps the search engine alive. The fact of the matter is that Yahoo is slow to react to new websites, it is slow to pick up new pages and it may take long months before it displays you in the results not because your website is not worthy, but because it simply doesn’t have the capacity to do it. If you really want to find relevant results to your query, the Yahoo Internet search engine is not the best way to go.

No. 3. MSN Live Search - It is supposed to have a new algorithm, but it is still lagging far behind the leading Internet search engine Google. As a matter of fact, the age old fact remains: the core customers of the MSN search are still the people who didn’t know or couldn’t be bothered to change the default page of Internet Explorer when they got their new computer.

There are other Internet search engines and directories of some relevance, but if you cover these, the others will find you and there is no reason to bother with them.

The truth is that Google is so ahead of the competition that the few years the others spent sitting on their hands might as well be 50 years due to the speed the industry is moving with.