[thelist] Submitting to Search Engines

[Williams, Alice]

Hello everyone,

Is it worth submitting to search engines?  I have been approached my numerous friends with the question on how do they get their web site known, most of them have paid to have their web site listed in "major" search engines but is this cost a racket?  There was a time when listing your search engine was free?  So I begin to do some investigation on how much it costs and how you submit, if you submit to one then a user that uses another search engine wouldn't get your listing.  I know there are the companies that claim to submit to hundreds of thousands of search engines but why are there hundreds of thousands of search engines????
Thanks,
Alice