Where do engines pull their results?
Last Updated: 6/10/02

* Overture Premium Listings (Top 3 Paid Listings)

Alta Vista

AltaVista Paid and/or
Overture*
Alta Vista

Looksmart

About.com

About.com proprietary content
Sprinks paid listings
Inktomi

America Online

AOL Featured Sites
Google
Inktomi
Open Directory

Direct Hit

Redirects to Teoma

Open Directory

Open Directory

Fast/All the Web

Fast/All the Web
Open Directory

Overture

Overture
Inktomi

Google

Google
Open Directory
Yahoo Directory

HotBot

Overture*
Direct Hit Technology via AskJeeves
Inktomi
Open Directory

iWon

Overture*
Inktomi

Looksmart

Looksmart
Inktomi

Lycos

Overture*
Fast/All the Web
Open Directory

MSN

MSN Featured Sites
Overture*
Looksmart
Direct Hit Technology via AskJeeves
Inktomi

Netscape

Overture*
Open Directory
Google

Yahoo! Web Sites

Overture*
Yahoo! Categories

Yahoo! Web Pages

Overture*
Google

FindWhat

FindWhat PPC
Direct Hit Technology via AskJeeves 

Kanoodle

Kanoodle PPC
Google

Ah-Ha

Ah-ha PPC
Ah-ha crawled sites

7Search

7Search PPC
7Search Search Partners
Teoma

Bay 9

Bay9 PPC
Crawled sites

Excite

Meta search engine pulling from:
AltaVista,
AskJeeves,
Inktomi,
About,
Looksmart,
FindWhat
Overture

Go.com (formally Infoseek)

Clone of Overture


Since the engines change their result formats and partner agreements frequently, please e-mail us if you see any aspect of this chart that may be out of date.  We'll do our best to keep it current.