Outsourcers

All the search engines and directories mentioned above produce their own listings. However, there remain some major search engines that simply outsource to produce the results they provide. For example, MSN Search uses information from both LookSmart and Inktomi. Trying to check your listings at such a place is difficult, because two or more data sets are involved. Below is a guide to what happens as such places

AOL Search

Use tips described above for the Open Directory to find your Open Directory listings and for Inktomi to find your Inktomi listings.

HotBot

Using the Inktomi site search command described above will brings up both your Open Directory and Inktomi listings. There is no command to bring up all your pages included in HotBot's Direct Hit powered "Top Ten" listings.

Lycos

Use tips described above for FAST to find your FAST listings. There is no way to find all your listings from the Open Directory or Direct Hit information the service uses.

MSN Search

Use tips described above for Inktomi to find your Inktomi listings. There is no way to find all your listings from LookSmart.

Netscape

Use tips described above for the Open Directory to find your Open Directory listings and for Google to find your Google listings.

Other Resources

There are services that can check search engines for your URL automatically, including checking on how they appear in relation to particular keyword phrases. These are listed on the URL Checking Services page.

Also, this page gives you just a taste of some of the powerful searches that can be done with search engines. See the Power Searching page for an at-a-glance guide to other types of searches.