Top International Search Engines to List Your Business

Written by Michelle Crossley Friday, 22 January 2010 10:27

I have made a list of currently active and most popular International Search Engines to list your business on. These search engines are considered to be "popular" search engines because they are extremely accepted and most used.

The search engines below are all excellent choices to start with when listing your business.

Not surprisingly Google has a well-deserved reputation as the top choice for those searching the web. This search engine is highly recommended as a first stop in your hunt for listing your business. Google's search continues to govern the global search landscape, in figures specific to us search market place accounting for over 67 percent of all queries worldwide according to comScore data.

Yahoo Search follows a distant second to Google, being the oldest directory of websites with results almost as good as Google if not better. Yahoo Search and Microsoft’s Bing attracted12.2 billion queries (19.3% share) through their search services, globally in 2009.

Bing being Microsoft’s latest facelift on the search engine that was first named MSN Search, then Live Search and now Bing. In the December analysis of the top properties where search activity is observed Bing experienced significant growth during the month with a 6% increase in query volume to nearly 1.4 billion searches.

Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, is one of the small but popular search engines . Ask Network captured 3.8% of the search market by the end of December, 2009. Followed by AOL.com with 2.8%, comScore said.

Chinese Search Engine Baidu is extremely poplar in Asia and comes behind Yahoo with just under 8 billion searches, or 7 percent global share, while Russian search engine Yandex grew immensely in popularity in Europe. In fact Yandex has grown faster than any other engine in the top ten, experiencing 94 percent year-on-year growth According to comScore.

Europe Accounts for Most Searches, but Latin America Highest in Searches per Searcher
The dynamics of search behavior vary considerably across different parts of the world. Among the five global regions, Europe accounted for the highest share of searches followed by Asia Pacific (30.8 percent) and North America (22.1 percent). Latin America displays the heaviest search behavior per person with 130 searches per searcher. Europe has the second highest overall search volume per person 117 searches per searcher, while North America exhibited the second heaviest frequency (12.5 search usage days per searcher).

The biggest and best search engines are listed above but if you want more there are a couple of cool search engines: Seznam,NHN, All The Web, Comcast, HotBot, Mamma, mywebsearch, WebFetch and Cuil.

For webmasters, the major search engines are the most important places to be listed, because they can potentially generate so much traffic.

For searchers, well-known, commercially-backed search engines generally mean more dependable results. These search engines are more likely to be well-maintained and upgraded when necessary, to keep pace with the growing web.