Lists of important search engines' add url / submit pages

With all of the the great claims of thousands upon thousands of search engines, has anybody came across a directory of search engines that have them listed in a chronological order of page rank and or link popularity that takes you directly to the add site pages that also lets you know if the submission is free, paid, or both before clicking on the link?

Will submitting to countless search engines help your link popularity and or page rank?

Have the big three; MSN, Yahoo, and Google completely gobbled up the search market, making it only necessary to establish a site in those three companies?

All feedback welcome.

Thanks

I think you should submit to directories rather than search engines. If you have enough inbound links, all the important engines will find your site.

I agree with blogdawg and you will have more directories than search engines you can submit your site to.

IMO, there are more ways to gain back links than just submitting to SEs

you can place your link in articles and press releases.
blogs
directory submissions
link exchanges.

http://strongestlinks.com/directories.php
http://www.freewebsubmission.com/
http://www.isedb.com/html/Web_Directories/

I just submit very few searchengines/directories.