[thelist] seo software

[J Nicholas Tolson]

Actually, there is a lot more sharing going on than just with DMOZ. The
chart linked to below illustrates this and should also help in choosing
which search engines/directories are the most important to which to submit.

http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginerelationshipchart.htm

I keep this tacked to my wall. It's been a big help in figuring out who is
sharing what with whom.


Nicholas



On 6/21/04 7:40 PM, "Damien COLA" <damiencola at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Thank you for the report,
> Dmoz.org should be on the list, that's the only one who share its
> database (as far as i know).
> Once accepted into this one, your site used to be then used by majors
> search engines, including google who made its directory from the dmoz
> database, that's obvious.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> The four are:
> 1. Google
> 2. Yahoo (directory and organic)
>  http://www.content.overture.com/d/USm/ays/sm.jhtml
> 3. MSN (Yahoo and Overture for now but launching new 2005)
> 4. AOL
>