A couple of weeks back I was looking for sites on a topic that Google tends to censor (don't ask ) and found this site: http://www.newmediajournal.us/daily_columns/anti-google_search_engine_index.htm It lists quite a few search engines (some larger, some smaller).
that is a tough Question, because it needs search a lot to get to know that what good search engines are not getting enough attention, as it first needs to find out that is this search engine hot or not?
That is a great list - thanks! Here is my list of over 300 with links to each of their free submission pages: http://www.trafficflowseo.com/2008/03/free-search-engine-submission-links.html
Just ask yourself what other search engines you use? There're plenty of them (including ask.com which is basically google) but do you ever use them? why do you expect other people to use them then?
Ask is not actually Google, just syndicates a lot of Google ads - there indexes are completely different.
When I first started I searched through a ton of different search engines. Also I think those who use specific isp's use their preferred search as well. Another thing, any and all ATTEMPTS to compete with google do paid adverts and TRY to get traffic SO if it is extra traffic why not do it.
Here is a list of search engines that send organic traffic to one of my sites and the percentage each account for. (From the last 1M visitors sent via search) Cheers James
Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, AOL, ASK, Baidu, Altavista, Alltheweb, Lycos are the search engines which people focus on it...
Most of the people use only google, yahoo, Bing, ask and altavista. Others only provide a negligible amount of traffic because very less people use them
Here is nice list of search engines in various categories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
I would like to throw my name into the ring. Although, we are still in testing we are operational for web search, and will be launching new image search, as well as other features. You can visit our search engine by visiting Orkbo.com Cheers
because of the every search engine have it own algorithm and strategies for search criteria. And also have some importance for some categories for search better and related to business.
Now there are a lot of search engines came . But Google stands in the top position. The search engine cuil comes to beat Google .But it can't. Ask, Altvista etc are also good search engines.