American search engines, searchengines of America (USA)

Whitelines.net guides you to the popular search engines for most countries and offers the links to promote your Website URL. The following American search engines are found.

7Search.com is one of the first Pay-Per-Ranking Searchengines on the Internet. This means that you have to pay for your submission! The advantage is that you can choose to be ranked first for certain kewords.

You can also visit 7metasearch.com for only top-10 Rankings from Yahoo!, Alltheweb, Altavista and other major searchengines.

aeiwi.com offers you a hierarchical way to find the items you are looking for. On the main page you select (from a list) of type your keyword. The searchengine will produce a list with related keywords where you can select from again. This continued keyword selection method leads you to the results.

ah-ha.com was founded in January 1999 to meet the growing demand for clean, relevant information on the Internet. At the same time, we wanted to create a marketplace where small and medium sized businesses could advertise their products or services without having to spend thousands of dollars each month.

Since early 2003 Altavista is part of Overture.

With using AltaVista's Express Inclusion service you can expect to see your site listed within 5-10 days. The nice thing about this new service is that AltaVista will re-index your site weekly, therefore making sure that your listing is current. You can still choose to submit to Alta Vista for free, however expect to wait 7-10 months before they index your site, if at all.

Altavista retrieves the main results from their own database, and the directory results from Looksmart. Also Overture delivers "bid for location" results to Altavista.

Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST) was established on July 16, 1997 in Norway and opened a US subsidiary in 1998. Research and Development is performed in Oslo and Trondheim in Norway, whereas Sales, Marketing, Engineering and Operations are based in Boston and San Francisco, USA. In addition, FAST also owns a UK based content provider - Fast Web Media Ltd. Since early 2003 Alltheweb.com is part of Overture.

In order to showcase the scalability of its search technology, FAST entered into a partnership with Dell in early 1999 with the goal of building the world's largest Searchengine that would search "All the Web, All the Time". The result of the partnership is showcased at http://www.alltheweb.com and has been described by Dell as "The Next Generation Searchengine".

Fast powers the search-results partly for Lycos (but also several other searchengines).

AOL uses the Open Directory Project as its backbone. The Open Directory Project has appoximately 2 million web sites, collected and organized by more than 20,000 expert editors worldwide, with more than 3,000 new sites added daily. These editors and America Online are dedicated to an open-source volunteer effort to make the best human-edited Directory on the Web.

Inktomi offers, next to the directory listings of dmoz, crawler based results to AOL. Google will deliver "Sponsered Link" results to AOL (as from May 2002).

As the world's first Internet Butler, Ask Jeeves is always at your service. He made it his mission to humanize the online experience by making it easy to find the most relevant information, products and services.

Ask Jeeves shows results from their own editors and gets spidered listings from Teoma.com and paid listings from Google.

Clickey is the Internet's first Searchengine and domain directory populated exclusively with top-level domain names. Built from the ground up with a desire to get back to basics, Clickey.com offers features not found on any other Searchengine.

With thousands of new web sites coming online each month, a new and logical way to catalog and retrieve information was needed. After years of in-depth collaboration with site owners and end users, Clickey was born.

Directhit.com doesn't exist anymore since summer 2002. Now this good old search engine is a part of Teoma.com. You will be redirected to www.teoma.com.

As the web grows, automated searchengines and directories with small editorial staffs will be unable to cope with the volume of sites. The Open Directory Project's goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors. Formerly it was known as NewHoo. Dmoz was acquired by Netscape in 1998, and is now owned by AOL.

Dmoz delivers their information to AOL, Google, Hotbot, Lycos and Netscape Search.

Dogpile.com is a metasearch service that integrates several medium and large Web search and index guides into a single service. It also provides a single launching point for stock quotes, usenet articles, weather forecasts, yellow pages and more.

Dygo.com (formerly Gopile.com) is a pay-per-click search engine. Also uses ODP (dmoz.org) for the search results.

Excite.com is a webportal with search functionality that uses Dmoz.org for the directory results and Overture.com for all other results. The submission of websites goes through Overture.com and Dmoz.org.

The search engines functionality has been discontinued due to the financial situation of the company.

Finalsearch.com is a crawler based searchengine. Submitted pages will be indexed immediately.

Galaxy is the original searchable Internet directory. Our mission is to provide contextually relevant, trustworthy information to visitors and partners by integrating state-of-the-art technology with the human touch.