Alta Vista
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Listing effective in: 1-2 days
Alta Vista and Yahoo are our favorite sites. An awesome site put up by Digital, it maintains a HUGE index with powerful and FAST search functions. It's a true robot that may have found your website already, but go ahead and submit your request for listing via e-mail. All you have to include is your URL. This site is so popular they have their own blimp!
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BizWeb
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Listing effective immediate
BizWeb is a directory of web links to companies with information about their products and/or services. Their intent is to aid the Internet shopper in finding information about products using the web. BizWeb isn't a directory of non-profit organizations, information resources, handy shareware, or cool pictures. But if you are a business with a web presence then they would like to know about your site.
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CanLink
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Listing effective in: immediately
CanLink does not accept listings for adult sites - all other listings are free. Their emphasis is on Canadian sites, but other listings are accepted as well.
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ComFind
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Listing effective in: 3 days
ComFind calls themselves the Internet's largest global business directory. They have millions of listings with over 100,000 website links in 150 countries. It was created by Focused Presence(r) to give Internet Buyers an easy way to locate the business products and services they need. It was designed to supplement text-based search engines by providing focused business and geographic search results and to deliver targeted buyer traffic to your site.
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Excite
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Listing effective in: 10-14 days
Excite currently has over 50 million pages in their index and sites are re-indexed every week. This is a great place to find stuff, so you should be listed here. This link takes your to their front page -- use the "Add URL" link under "Information" to access the submission page.
We have a special fondness for Excite, as we use their free and powerful search engine for the Internet News Bureau press release archives and for the Internet-Sales Archives.
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Global Online Directory
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Listing effective in: immediate
They use the acronym G.O.D. for this site in Europe. This is a large site that is gaining in popularity - they had their 1,000,000th visitor in March. When you submit your site for listing here they automatically enter you in a contest for one weeks free lodging in Europe.
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HandiLinks
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Listing effective in:
This is a great directory. HandiLinks listings are all organized into a hierarchical index and it's fast and easy-to-use. It has extensive categorization, and uses a frame design that aids rather than getting in the way of searches. Adds are done from within the chosen sub-category and copies of add transactions are emailed to the submittor.
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HotBot
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Listing effective in: three weeks
HotBot is a joint venture of HotWired, publisher of Wired magazine, and Inktomi. It uses Inktomi's parallel processing technology and claims to be more comprehensive and easier to use than Alta Vista -- a pretty big accomplishment if true. All you have to do is add your URL - they say they will visit your site and index it within one week.
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Infoseek
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Listing effective in: One minute
One of the Big Dogs - be sure to register here. They used to accept URL's only via e-mail, but now you can submit directly from their site. And your listing will become effective immediately.
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InfoSpace
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Listing effective in: ?
This is a great new site. InfoSpace has over 112 million US and Canadian listings of people, government offices and businesses which include fax and toll-free numbers. They claim that their AccuMail is the largest and most accurate email directory in the world. InfoSpace services are now available on Lycos, Magellan and Excite and will soon be available on other services. Submit your information here ASAP - do it now!
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Jayde Online Directory
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Listing effective in: immediate
Jayde is currently receiving about 800 site submissions a day. Submissions are free and can be added to one of 40
categorized areas in Jayde's searchable database of links immediately with 2-3 lines of descriptive text.
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Lexiconn
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Listing effective in: 1-2 days
Lexiconn is a comprehensive searchable business directory that categorizes its entries by type and regional location. Its features include searching by keyword, category, or geographic location. Submission of new URL's is encouraged - and free.
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LinkMonster
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Listing effective in: immediate
LinkMonster now features 34 categories and new listings, Today's Additions, What's New and their Main database are updated every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day. They have recently added job listings for IT professionals.
- LinkStar
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Listing effective in: immediate
Register using their e-Card. They make it easy by listing the categories
for you.
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Lycos
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Listing effective in: 2 - 4 weeks
One of the most popular robots, Lycos is really backlogged - they indicate that it will six weeks before your site is listed with them. But it's easy to submit your information as all you have to enter is your URL.
- NetHappenings
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Listing effective in: ?
Net-happenings is a service of InterNIC Information and Education Services, the Net Scout project, and the list moderator, Gleason Sackman. The purpose of the list is to distribute to the Internet community announcements of interest to network staffers and end users.
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New Rider's WWW Yellow Pages
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Listing effective in: will review
Site maintained by Macmillan Publishing, a subsidiary of Simon &
Schuster. This is for an entry in the soon to be published 1996 WWW Yellow
Pages (printed).
- Nihongo Yellow Pages
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Listing effective in: back-logged
For access to Japanese markets. Your information will be posted in
English and Japanese.
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Open Text Web Index
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Listing effective in: 2 weeks
Important site. Yahoo uses the Open Text search engine. All you have to do is enter your URL. This link takes you into their home page, as the link to the registration page changes frequently. To register your site,
first choose search at the home page, then add new site at the subsequent page.
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Pronet
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Listing effective in: 1 day
A multilingual link to the products, services, and capabilities of more than 150,000 companies and resources from around the world.
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REX
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Listing effective in: ?
This is a VERY nice site - a little sense of humor, very professionally done.
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TradeWave Galaxy
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Listing effective in: back-logged
Big, important site. Be sure to list in the right area. The best way is to add your link right from a topic page.
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WebCrawler
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Listing effective in: 2 weeks
This spider has grey whiskers. WebCrawler is one of the first, biggest and most important robots. Now owned by America Online, this site is getting better all the time and has fabulous performance when searching for a site. All you have to do is register your URL.
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What's New on the Internet
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Listing effective in: 1 day
What's New on the Internet has Global, U.S., European and U.K. editions. Your listing will be added immediately. This site is monitored by the Media and others to keep up to date on new sites coming online, so be sure to add yours.
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What-U-Seek
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Listing effective in: 1day
What-U-Seek calls their spider Winona and claims to break all search engine speed records. They index new sites every hour. They call themselves a search engine, BY the people, FOR the people.
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Where2Go
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Listing effective in: 1-3 days
Where2Go calls themselves the Internet's most sophisticated business search engine. Visitors can search by any combination of business name, URL, address, city, state, zip, telephone, product, keywords, and more. All businesses with a valid business telephone and a web site are eligible to be listed here. Listings are free, but Where2Go does appreciate a reciprocal link.
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WWW Worm
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Listing effective in: several weeks
Robot -- all you have to do is enter your URL and keywords.
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Yahoo
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Listing effective in: back-logged
As you know, this is the Big One, the Big Yahoona. Choose categories
carefully and register under several. But expect a delay of several weeks
before they list your site as they're currently adding hundreds of sites a day.
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