Which search engines are the best to submit your website to?

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As far as submitting your site and pages are concerned, it doesn't really matter which are the best search engines. You should aim at submitting to all of them.

Top 10
As far as a surfer is concerned, there are differences between the various engines. Almost everyone will have one or two favourites. Many users only ever use whichever search engine their ISP (Internet Service Provider) provides on their own front page.
You will see many claims to submit your site to "over 100" or "over 2,000" search engines. In fact about 80% of search engine traffic comes through about 10 top search engines.

The following are important, we have listed them in alphabetical order:-

altavista
excite
google
hotbot
infoseek
inktomi
lycos
open directory
webcrawler
yahoo

You may never have heard of Inktomi, but they are a major search engine which is used to power many other regional or national search engines, such as Anzwers in Australia and New Zealand, Canada.com obviously in Canada, and numerous others.