SearchSight? ExactSeek? SearchHippo? Gigablast? SearchSwap? EntireWeb? Altavista?

Hello!

I'm sure you know of the search engines listed below:
- SearchSight
- ExactSeek
- SearchHippo
- GigaBlast
- SearchSwap
- EntireWeb
- AltaVista

They have been on the internet for YEARS; I believe all are at least 3-5 years old and oddly enough, they're some of the biggest secondary search engines on the internet.

Through the past 5 years, I've must have owned a few hundred to thousand websites that have all been featured in search engines, including the ones listed above. But strange as it may seem, although I'm listed in the above search engines, I have never gotten a visitor from one of them, nor heard of any webmasters getting visitors from them.

I know that each one of the search engines are big, maybe not nearly as big as Google or MSN, but I'd expect a visitor or two from each of them - wouldn't you?

Has anybody ever gotten a visitor from any of the search engines listed above? Hell, I've never even gotten a visitor from DogPile. Google, MSN, and Ask Jeeves is where it seems to be. Yahoo! was doing good a little bit earlier in the year 2005, but its results seem to be slacking for many of my sites. I haven't gotten a visitor from Yahoo! in...I'd say...6 months?

Mama.com search engine; I'm going to guess trackers pick it up as Ask Jeeves since it is owned by them. But, still, have any of you ever got a single hit/visitor from any of the search engines listed above?!

 

I get visitors from Exactseek, altavista, dogpile & gigablast. Not many, just 5-10 every month.

 

I get traffic from AltaVista and DogPile. Not as much as the others of course, but still some every week. This is pretty much the order of them as far as the traffic they send for me...


Google
Yahoo
MSN
Altavista
AOL
Dogpile
Search.com
AllTheWeb
Netscape
ilse
Virgilio
Overture/Goto
Eniro
MetaCrawler
Tiscali
Seznam
ixquick
BBC
Mamma
InfoSpace
WebCrawler
Excite
T-Online
AskJeeves
Kvasir
Fireball
Voila

Like I said, most of the search engine traffic I get comes from the top three, but I do still get some from all of these others each week.

 

Bump. I'd like to learn more about this, please.

 

So what's your site? If it's so off the wall maybe main stream folks are looking for it...??

 

Here's mine. Top to bottom... I've never even heard of half of these engines. Huge difference in numbers between the big three and the rest though. List is from AwStats.

MSN
Google
Yahoo
Dogpile
Excite
AltaVista
Google (Images)
WebCrawler
MetaCrawler
Baidu
InfoSpace
Search.com
AOL
Earth Link
Virgilio
Seznam
Netscape

 

Other than the big three I got the occasional visitor from Dogpile. Not much else from search engines. Every once in a blue moon I might get a lost soul who finds me through metacrawler or altavistas, or the others.

 

I get about 10 hits a month from dogpile, a bit less from alltheweb, and a handful a month from ExactSeek, and Search123

 

Talk to me.

 

You only 'think' you haven't got a vist from any others. Believe me, the big guns DO NOT get their results from the top of their hat. They get them from baby engines and directories where you are listed and hey, do you think for a sec they are gonna give credit to anyone else!?>>??

 

I tried guaranteed paid inclusions to Entireweb and ExactSeek - lost time...
Some traffic came from Mamma classifieds.

 

97.4% of our search engine traffic is from the Google, MSN, and Yahoo (in that order).

 

My Traffic Comes From The following:

Google
MSN
Yahoo
Excite
AOL
Earth Link
Tiscali
Dogpil

 

Well I guess the search engines of yesterday will always remain the search engines of yesterday. ISP search engines are getting a lot bigger and are more frequently used, huh?

 

Goog
Msft
Yhoo
Aol

 

Altavista used to be pretty popular. It was one of the revolutionary search engines that made a good algorithm for searching. I remember years ago it started to take off, looking like it was going to be #1... Don't know if it ever really was back then, but I'm kind of disapointed they have just slipped away, they had really good potential

 

Yeah, Altavista and GigaBlast were both very popular and making news headlines every other week on Yahoo! and CNET... Dunno WHAT happened, really!

 

I get traffic from alta vista. Never heard of the other ones.

Stupidest post I've read today. The big guns get their results from their own algo's. I doubt google goes to "search hippo" for results

Dammit. I hate getting sucked into threads that are a month old.

 

How do you get spidered by gigablast?

 

Hahahaha. It's okay as long as you're making a good point.

@bermudaviper: It's easy. Go to GigaBlast and add your URL. Feature might say its disabled but it's really not!