World’s Top Search Engines

Search engines are the most important source of new web site visitors. Almost 50 percent of site visits begin at the search engine and a lot of traffic is generated. Search engines are the path makers between the web pages and the web users. Any new visitor to a particular website comes through a search engines whether it is Google, Yahoo, MSN or any other search engine. About 80 percent of people, going online planning to shop for something or subscribe for any of the services start with any of the major search engine. Some of the major search engines serving World Wide Web are as follows:

Google
Google is the most prominent one all across the globe and its empire is still expanding. It is believed to be the most trusted source of information similar to any of the government agency. More than a dozen domains by Google we are able to perform each and every daily task, business related queries or any nook and comer of our life. Google has an omnipresent existence.

Yahoo
The second major search engine to receive search queries. Yahoo is specialized receiving more business related queries as it is specialized providing business oriented results. Yahoo uses a combination of web crawlers compiled and indexed results to rank the websites that are registered on their search engine. Services offered by Yahoo are Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Maps and Driving Directions, and Yahoo! Messenger.

MSN
It is believed to be the third most popular internet biggies on the web. MSN messenger is the most successful web application to hit the internet over the last decade. Optimization for MSN is equally important when it comes to website SEO. IT has major emphasis on using on page optimization techniques.

Dogpile
It compiles all the major search engines result in to one. It gives us a piled web results from all the major search engines like Google, MSN and Yahoo. Known as meta search, Dogpile powers all the leading search engines together in one search box to deliver the best combined results.

MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler says, “Search the search engines” it means it provides the best results from the combined pool of the world's leading search engines. MetaCrawler uses innovative metasearch technology to search major search engines like Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, About, MIVA, LookSmart and more.

AltaVista
AltaVista is committed to provide advance Internet search with new technologies and features designed to improve the search experience for consumers. It is known for delivering Internet's first Web index, first multilingual search capabilities on the Internet first Internet search engine to launch Image, Audio, and Video search capabilities.

There are other search engines like LookSmart, WebSearch, Ask, LiveSearch and others which are continuously supplying immense information to the internet community.

How about if you are able to get all these major search engines result on a single screen? Searchboth.com is now launching website providing all the major search engine results at the once. One can compare two major search engines displayed results without opening multiple browsers. Yahoo and Google are the default results displayed but one can chose the other search desired search engine.