Tag:search engines

Notable PPC-based search engines

Friday, 23 January 2009 Written by Jon J. Demko

Ask.com
Baidu.com
Business.com
Google (Google AdWords)
Looksmart
MSN/Live Search (Microsoft adCenter)
Yahoo! (Yahoo! Search Marketing)

Obtaining backlinks from search engines

Friday, 23 January 2009 Written by Jon J. Demko

Most commercial search engines provide a mechanism to determine the number of backlinks they have recorded to a particular web page. For example, Google can be searched using link: wikipedia.org (or link: en.wikipedia.org) to find the number of pages on the Web pointing to http://wikipedia.org/.

Yahoo!’s Site Explorer is a method of obtaining the number of backlinks on a site.