Search Engines

'Starting an Online Business for Dummies', by Shannon Belew and Joel Elad is recommended Wiley Publishing, Inc. (658.872).

The following is useful information related to submitting a site to the Google search engine.

"1. Go to www.google.com/addurl.html
2. In the URL box, enter the full address of your website's home page.
3. In the Comments box, enter a one-sentence keyword description of your Web site.
4. Type the squiggly word shown in the box that's displayed.
5. Click the add URL button."

(pages 456-457)

Other search engine submittal addresses:

MSN: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
AltaVista: http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl
InfoUSA: http://dbupdate.infousa.com/dbupdate/index.html
(see page 459)