Overture (GoTo)
http://www.overture.com/
Overture is the oldest and most important paid placement search engine, because it distributes its listings to a wide-range of major search engines, including AltaVista, AOL Search, Lycos, HotBot,Yahoo,MSN and Netscape Search. The company changed its name from GoTo to Overture in October 2001.
FindWhat.com
http://www.findwhat.com/
FindWhat is an important paid
placement service because the company distributes its results on the Excite search engine (see the Major Search Engines page), as well as on many major metacrawlers.
Sprinks
http://sprinks.about.com/
Paid placement service that posts links to appropriate areas within the About.com network of subject sites.
Espotting.com
http://www.espotting.com/
Major paid placement service targeting users in the United Kingdom and Europe. Has wide distribution on UK search engines such as Lycos, Netscape and Ask Jeeves.
NBCi
http://nbci.msnbc.com/
NBCi provides listings from Dogpile, a
meta search engine that is dominated by paid listing services. It was formerly a human-compiled directory of web sites, supplemented by search results from Inktomi. It was also formerly known as Snap but had a name change in late 2000.
Go (Infoseek)
http://www.go.com/
Go is the former portal site that grew out of the old Infoseek search engine. Owned by Disney, the company
abandoned further development of Go in March 2001. Search is still available at Go; however, the results are simply paid listings provided by Overture (see above).
Bay9.com
http://www.bay9.com
Paid listing service with some distribution on meta search sites. Formerly known as Rocketlinks.
Kanoodle
http://www.kanoodle.com/
Paid listing service with some distribution on meta search sites.
ePilot.com
http://www.epilot.com/
Paid listing service with some distribution on meta search sites.
ValleyAlley
http://www.valleyalley.com/
Paid listing service with some distribution on meta search sites.
Ah-ha.com
http://www.ah-ha.com/
Billed as a kid-safe service powered by FAST Search.
Godado
http://www.godado.tv/
Paid placement search engine targeting countries in Europe. Select your particular country of interest from links at the bottom of the home page.
eFind.com
http://www.efind.com/
Advertisers can bid to be listed at the top of search results.
Win4Win
http://www.win4win.com/
Paid placement search engine Launched in May 2000.
theinfodepot.com
http://theinfodepot.com/
Paid placement service based on Open Directory information.
PayPerClickSearchEngines.com
http://www.payperclicksearchengines.com
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