Excite One of the more popular search services on the web. It also integrates non-web material such as company information and sports scores. FAST Search FAST aims to index the entire web. It was the first search engine to break the 200 million web page index milestone. GoTo GoTo sells its main listings.
Companies can pay money to be placed higher in the search results.
Non-paid results come from Inktomi. Google Google has a huge index and bases its results on link popularity. Web sites that have many links leading to them are rated higher because they are preceieved as being more popular. Google has gained wide-spread praises for its high relevancy. HotBot HotBot is a favorite among researchers due to its many power searching features.