Which Search engines are best for SEOs??

Hi SEOs,

I am developing a software like www.linksurvey.com. I would like to know your suggestion about WHICH Search engines should i integrate inside my software?? My existing competitor "Live Survey" supports LOTS of search engines like Mad! It supports search engines like Google , HotBot, All The Web, Lycos, Altavista, MSN, Yahoo, All The Sites, AOL, Excite and many more..... Without knowing the fact that "AOL and All the Sites" is powered by Google, So querying AOL and "All the sites" does not makes any sense when you are querying Google as AOL and "All the sites" return the SAME results as Google! Similarly Yahoo powers the search results of "Hotbot, All the Web, Lycos, Altavista and MSN". So Querying search engines like "Hotbot, All the Web, Lycos, Altavista and MSN" makes no sense when Yahoo gives you the EXACT results!

Now the question. If I was to make a software like www.linkSurvey.com, Which search engines should the software be made to query?? I have till now planned only of integrating "Google and Yahoo" inside the software. Any suggestions which Search engines should my software be made to query?

Thanks a Trillion!

Regards,
Tushar

The competitor is pandering to the ignorant customer who doesn't know that many of these SEs are rebranded and are actually the same. You should do the same and list multiple sites (e.g., AOL for Google). Or you can try to educate the user and say only GG counts. But I say that's a loosing battle.

Hi Danz, Yes i guess you are right. I must educate my users and say that only Google counts. But is our planet earth That much short of unique search engines?? Are we all surrounded by only and only rebranded versions of Google and Yahoo? There must be a few more search engines that are different from gg and yahoo :--)