1. 2ask Directory http://www.2ask.com/ 
    • Click on "Nominate" to suggest a page to add to this database. Note that the intent here seems to be that you nominate someone else's page, rather than promoting your own. 
    • WARNING: This engine has an option which will automatically add your e-mail address to a mailing list unless you explicitly disable it. 
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  2. 555-1212 http://www.555-1212.com 
    • Click on http://www.555-1212.com/addbiz.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is primarily a business directory. It does not list personal pages. 
    • The category listing is fairly specific, with over 8000 entries as of this writing. Finding yours will no doubt take a while. 
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  3. Aliweb http://www.nexor.com/public/aliweb/doc/search.html 
    • Click on http://www.nexor.com/public/aliweb/doc/registering.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is an academic search engine – and it shows. It's nicely thought out, but a serious undertaking to add entries to. 
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  4. Alta Vista http://www.altavista.digital.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.altavista.digital.com/av/content/addurl.htm to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is, of course, one of the more prominent search engines, and well worth listing your page with. Note that when you add a URL to Alta Vista, it will send a spider around to visit your page. The spider will index any secondary pages at your site – one entry with your principal URL is all that's required to call for the spider. 
    • The Alta Vista spider looks for META tags in the HTML documents it indexes. It's a really good idea to use these on all the pages you create. 
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  5. AOL Netfind http://www.aol.com 
    • Click on http://www.aol.com/netfind/info/addurl.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • Netfind is a function of America On Line – remarkably, you can connect to it and not encounter a busy signal. It's a simple submission engine – all it wants is your URL and an e-mail address. 
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  6. Avatar Search http://www.AvatarSearch.com/ 
    • This one's a bit specialized – it's a search engine for occult pages. Look around you – if there are any crosses adorning your digs, or if you can quote anything from the bible 'cept the naughty bits, you'll probably want to pass on this engine. Yes, it's a bit strange, but we liked it. 
    • Non-occult pages aren't accepted by this engine. 
    • While there isn't an obvious glut of advertising at this page, its response can be a bit slow as there's a JavaScript running all the time, downloading new banners. 
    • Click on Add URL to add an entry to this engine. The whole works is a bit involved the first time, as you must apply for a user account. 
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  7. BizWeb http://www.BizWeb.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.BizWeb.com/InfoForm/ to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is primarily a business listing. The submission form is fairly easy to use, but it has no fields for a comprehensive description of your page. As such, searching this engine can involve a lot of clicking around the web. 
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  8. Business Seek http://www.businesseek.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.businesseek.com/business/engalta.htm to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is primarily a business listing. 
    • This page appears to have been translated from Spanish – the odd Spanish word still pops up. 
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  9. Canada.Com http://www.canada.com 
    • Moose, beer and high taxes – all these things speak of Canada. The Canada.Com search engine is actually quite a rich resource, with links to numerous Canadian newspapers, local weather, stocks and the results of a selection of state-run lotteries. Note that nothing much really happens in the latter category, as the results are always "sorry – try again." The web page database of Canada.Com is extensive, and is not limited to Canadian resources. Local folk do get a patriotic red maple leaf next to their listings, however, perhaps a reminder that the liberal government recently spent over seventeen million dollars of public money to buy flags for its citizens. 
    • Click on http://results.canada.com/search/addurl.asp to add your page to this engine. All it wants is the URL of your home page and your e-mail address – it will spider your page and add whatever it finds to its database. 
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  10. Canlinks http://www.canlinks.net/ 
    • Click on http://www.canlinks.net/addalink/index.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is primarily a business listing. 
    • While it appears to accept links for pages located anywhere, Canlinks features an emphasis on Canadian web pages. 
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  11. College Surfer http://www.collegesurfer.com 
    • Click on http://www.collegesurfer.com/addurl.shtml to add your page to this engine. 
    • As its name might suggest, College Surfer is a search engine primarily for students. It features a breathtakingly easy submission function – enter your pimary URL and it will spider your page. 
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  12. COMFIND Business Search http://www.comfind.com/contact.html 
    • Click on http://www.comfind.com/intro.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is primarily a business directory. It offers basic listings for free, with more prominent listings available for one hundred dollars per year. The free listing submission form lacks a page description field. 
    • Spend a few days trying to work out the most complex arrangement of screens to register a single web page. It's doubtful that you'll surpass the authors of this one, but it will certainly give you an idea of what they went through to create it. If you submit your page to COMFIND, note that your name and address are required fields – your web page URL is an optional field. 
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  13. CyberXpress Mall http://www.cyberxpress.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.cyberxpress.com/listing.htm to add your page to this engine. 
    • This engine offers to include your listing in its database for thirty days at no cost, after which time it appears to want money to keep it there. I never did figure out how much it wants, or the details of the arrangement. 
    • This one deserves a prize for the ugliest search engine of the year... a real toenail curler. 
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  14. Dynamic Sites http://dynamic.strides.com/ 
    • I'm not sure if I was easily distracted on the day I tried this engine, or if it's genuinely more confusing than watching two liberals trying to figure out who most deserves to pick up the cheque for lunch. I never did get it to accept our listing. 
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  15. EINet Galaxy http://galaxy.einet.net/ 
    • Click on http://galaxy.einet.net/cgi-bin/annotate?/galaxy to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is primarily an academic listing, although it's a particularly diverse and well-implemented one. 
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  16. EuroSeek http://www.euroseek.net/page?ifl=uk
    • Click on http://addsite.euroseek.net/page.cfm?ifl=uk&page=start to add your page to this engine. 
    • This appears to be a generalized listing, primarily for sites in Europe. It does, however, have country selections for places around the world. It's a spider-based engine, which means that you can point it at your home page and it will find your dependent pages by itself. 
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  17. Excite http://www.excite.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.excite.com/Info/add_url.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • The Excite engine will accept listings for pretty well anything on the web. It appears to be a spider – all its addition function wants is the address of your page. 
    • As of this writing, there was a two week wait for new entries to get into the database. 
    • This engine claims to have a "constantly refreshed database of 50 million URLs." 
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  18. Expawsed http://www.lpc-net.com/expawsed/default.htm 
    • Click on http://www.lpc-net.com/expawsed/submit.htm to add your site to this engine. 
    • This is a medium-size search engine... with a lot of graphics of paw prints, for no easily explained reason. Its submission form offers a mammoth fifteen word page description field. It lacks a search function – you have to browse through its categories to find things. 
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  19. EZ Connect http://www.ezconnect.com 
    • This engine was not accepting submissions when last I looked. 
  20. Fiction Search http://www.fictionsearch.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.fictionsearch.com/addsite.html to add your site to this engine. 
    • Fiction Search is a specialized search engine for matters relating to books. If this listing had a rating category for coolness, I'd give it all five bullets. It offers specialized listings for authors, audio books, publishers, bookshop and all manner of other things literary. 
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  21. File Dudes http://www.filedudes.com/index.html 
    • Click on http://www.filedudes.com/main/submit.html to add your shareware to this engine. 
    • File Dudes is a search engine for shareware – it accepts submissions of downloadable files, not web pages. Despite its somewhat Californian exterior, it's nicely set up and exceedingly well executed. It includes a search function for its database. 
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  22. File Mine http://www.filemine.com 
    • Click on http://www.filemine.com/AddYourFiles to add your shareware to this engine. 
    • File Mine is another search engine for shareware – this could be the beginning of a trend. As its name might imply, it has a mining theme. Its page includes the slogan "dig our downloads," which should probably be grounds for a quick stroll past the firing squad. While a well-thought out page and unquestionably a useful resource, it gets overwhelmed by its theme in places. 
    • The File Mine submission page is arguably a bit more involved than it has to be. 
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  23. Global On-Line Directory http://www.god.co.uk/
    • Click on Add URL to add your page to this engine. 
    • One wonders how long it took the creators of this engine to find a name which could be represented by the acronym "GOD" – could be the first signs of a personality disorder of some sort. 
    • Despite its pretensions toward deification, this isn't a bad search engine. The Addition function, with its multiple screens to define the nature and location of your page, is a bit tiresome. One wonders why, in a largely nationless medium, this directory requires the precise location of the town where your server resides. 
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  24. Goldlinks http://www.goldlinks.com/
    • Click on http://www.goldlinks.com/addurl.shtml to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is an agreeable, unpretentious search engine. One mildly troubling aspect of its submission function is its page description field. It doesn't specify a length – rather, it says "keep it short." However, there is a fixed maximum, and if you exceed it the final confirmation screen will display a cryptic error message. 
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  25. Google http://google.stanford.edu/
    • Click on http://google.stanford.edu/addurl to add your page to this engine. This is a large-scale hypertextual web search engine – whatever that actually means. There's an exhaustive discussion at this page of the leading-edge technology behind Google, if you're interested. It claimed to have indexed about twenty-five million pages when I last checked it. 
    • An ostensibly experimental search engine created at Stanford University, its submission function says "Add a URL here and we will likely add your Web page to our index the next time we crawl. Note that crawling is a considerable effort so we only crawl every few months. That means your page probably won't be downloaded or added to our index for that amount of time." I think that any organization that considers the health and stress level of its computer deserves at least a moment's notice. 
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  26. Go To http://www.goto.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.goto.com/WWWWadd.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is a general search engine. It appears to be based on a spider – all you have to enter is the URL of your main page and it will come by and index it. However, it generates a listing from the initial text of the pages it visits, rather from their META tags, which means that its listings can be a bit garbled. 
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  27. Guide U http://www.target-reactions.com/guideu/index.htm 
    • Click on http://www.xs4all.nl/~trip/guideu/frames/guf-502.htm to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is a small search engine. It has been translated from Dutch, and a few spelling errors have crept into its pages. Its page description field is limited to twenty-five words, a bit thin. Finding things at this page is a larger undertaking than it probably needs to be. 
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  28. HandiLinks http://www.ahandyguide.com/ 
    • Browse through the extensive listing of categories and click on Submit when you find one that suits your page to add your page to this engine. 
    • HandiLinks seems to have a considerable wealth of listings, and as such is worth submitting your page to. Slogging through its categories, subcategories, subsubcategories and third-level designer catacombs gets a bit tedious. 
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  29. Hot Bot http://www.hotbot.com 
    • Click on http://www.hotbot.com/addurl.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • HotBot is an excellent search engine – we use it extensively in house to search the web. It updates its database periodically with an automatic spider, such that if you add new pages to your site, it will come by and index them without being asked to as long as you're listed with it. 
    • The only down side of HotBot is that it's thoroughly choked with advertising. Marketing executives probably drool visibly wherever they get within fifteen feet of a monitor displaying HotBot's screens. 
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  30. Hot Lava http://hotlava.erupt.com/ 
    • Click on http://hotlava.erupt.com/submit.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • At forty characters, Hot Lava has one of the least generous page description fields of any of the search engines we looked at. 
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  31. Hot Spots http://www.winmag.com/flanga/hotspots.htm 
    • Click on http://www.winmag.com/flanga/mail2me.htm to suggest a page for Hot Spots. 
    • Hot Spots isn't a search engine – it's a column in Windows magazine. You can use this page to suggest sites for its author, Fred Langa, to include in upcoming columns. 
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  32. Huge List http://www.thehugelist.com/ 
    • The Huge List isn't getting any huger. As of this writing, this page was not accepting new additions... attempting to add one will get you sent to the page that solicits sponsors. On top of this, it's "made with a Macintosh." You can tell, 'cause it says so at every opportunity. Political correctness and misplaced priorities... the twin plagues of the nineties. 
  33. i-Explorer http://www.i-explorer.com/home.dll?? 
    • Click on http://www.i-explorer.com/submit.htm for instructions to add your page to this engine. 
    • This one seems to be a smaller engine, with a less extensive database than some of the more well known search engines. It uses a Yahoo-like structure, in that it wants you to work your way down through its category tree to find a category to submit your page to. 
    • The submission screen says "The information that you supply here will be used by i-Explorer to generate search queries. It is important that you be as complete as possible." Unfortunately, it requires that you be "as complete as possible" in no more than 255 characters. 
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  34. Info Mak http://www.infomak.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.infomak.com/add_url.sh for instructions to add your page to this engine. 
    • InfoMak is a well laid-out but otherwise undistinguished search engine. It seems to have a fairly small database. Its submission function is agreeably simple, albeit with one spelling error at the time of this writing. In addition to searches, it offers horoscopes and soap opera summary – guess which market segment this one's going after. 
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  35. Info Seek http://www.infoseek.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.infoseek.com/AddUrl?pg=DCaddurl.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • Info Seek is a large search engine, and well worth using. All you need do is tell it where your page is – it will index from your URL. However, note that it appears to generate its listings from the first few lines of text of your page, rather than from its META tags. This can leave you with a somewhat unusual listing. 
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  36. Info Source http://www.theinfosource.com 
    • Click on the Add your URL link to add your page to this engine. 
    • Info Source seems to be a smaller search engine, with a relatively restricted database as of this writing. Most searches return the message "our search engine is currently being upgraded and enhanced to include the entire World Wide Web" and don't actually turn up any hits. The submission function is agreeably simple. The JavaScript message that says "sure hope you bookmarked this web site" every time you leave, however, is annoying. 
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  37. Info Highway http://www.infohiway.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.infohiway.com/isn/index.cgi and select "Add A Link" to add your page to this engine. 
    • It seems inevitable that someone would call their search engine "Info Highway." I want to create one called "Info Roadkill," myself. 
    • This is a smaller but fairly agreeable search engine. It will spell-check your entries before it accepts them, a singularly worthwhile feature. 
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  38. Info Space http://www.infospace.com 
    • Click on http://www.infospace.com/_1_132469890__info/submit.htm to add your page to this engine. 
    • InfoSpace is a fairly extensive library of listings. It has somewhat restricted search facilities, and it doesn't lend itself to generalized topic searches. It's useful for locating specific on-line businesses. 
    • The Info Space page description field is restricted to a generous twenty-five words or less. Be concise. 
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  39. Intuitive Web Index http://intuitive.iexp.com/ 
    • Click on http://intuitive.iexp.com/submit.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • Not especially intuitive, the Intuitive Web Index offers one of the more unpleasant colour schemes of all the search engines reviewed – black, turquoise and red rarely go well together. The somewhat unintuitive part of its functionality is its page submission function, which appears to only be prepared to accept a URL without a dependent page component. Specifically, it will accept http://www.mindworkshop.com, but not http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html. This will serve to render it a tad useless if you don't have your own domain. 
    • This engine is based on a spider – once you get it to accept your URL, it will visit your page and generate a listing. However, as it generates listings based on the first few lines of the pages it finds, rather than on their META tags, the listings can be a bit peculiar. 
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  40. Jayde Online http://www.jayde.com 
    • Click on http://www.jayde.com/submit.html to add your page to this engine, and select Click Here to Add Your Site 
    • Jayde is a nicely organized search resource... sadly, its submission function appears to have been written by some former employees of the KGB who were downsized out of a job after Glasnost. It says in part: "MLM sites posted in any category other than Business MLM will be deleted. Submissions in caps or exceeding 3 to 4 lines of descriptive text, will be deleted. Site submissions with embedded graphics, javascript, etc. will be deleted. Multiple submissions to the same, or multiple, categories will be deleted." Vat is more, komrade, ve vill enjoy deleting zem! (Hmmm... maybe that should have been done in a bad World War II B-movie German accent. I'm never sure about these things.) 
    • You can submit shareware announcements to http://www.jayde.com/shareapp.html. 
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  41. JumpCity http://www.jumpcity.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.jumpcity.com/send-page.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • Jump City is a fairly reasonable search engine, although it also seems to be an exercise in finding ways to make the web more complicated than it needs to be. Ignore its references to "Jump Codes" and use its search function to find things. Note that in addition to indexing web pages, it also references newsgroups when it's asked to search. 
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  42. Link Monster http://www.linkmonster.com 
    • Click on http://207.124.99.40/add.html or select Add URL from the main page to add your page to this engine. 
    • This engine is just oozing with ads. At such time as the technology exists to have a mechanical arm reach out of the back of your monitor and paint "Lowest Prices on Pentium Computers Anywhere" across your forehead, I expect to see it implemented first at Link Monster. 
    • While not quite up to the dogma of the Jayde engine's submissions page, this one gets a fairly high cyber-tyrant rating. See http://www.linkmonster.com/route.html for one of the most convoluted descriptions ever devised of how a search engine submission feature works. 
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  43. Link Master http://www.linkmaster.com/ 
    • Click on Register URL to add your page to this engine. 
    • The very first thing that appeared when I linked to this page for the first time was a banner ad which asked "Are you infested with parasites?" This did not bode well. While the ads are pretty thick at Link Master, the Java applets are thicker. Rare indeed is the square inch of screen real estate that doesn't flash, click or beep when your mouse passes over it. There's a Java applet that periodically downloads banner advertisements for as long as you're at this page, slowing things down considerably. 
    • The search engine function of Link Master is somewhat hard to get used to. The submission function is a bit confusing, and it isn't above the occasional threat. 
    • For reasons not adequately described, Link Master refers to the web pages it indexes as "kingdoms." 
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  44. LinkStar http://www.linkstar.com 
    • Click on http://www.linkstar.com/linkstar/bin/doform?form=ecard to add your page to this engine. 
    • LinkStar is a professional, well thought out search engine, largely for business users. It maintains a searchable database of electronic business cards. Its sanity checking for submissions is a bit extreme, and mildly frustrating at times. 
    • The page description field in the submission function is limited to fifty words. The listing of categories consists of several pages of check boxes, which takes a while to wade through. 
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  45. Look Smart http://www.looksmart.com/ 
    • Search through Look Smart for a topic that suits your page and click on the submission link at the bottom of the topic listing to add your page to this engine. 
    • This engine is nicely executed but it requires somewhat more work than it should to submit a listing. Its user interface is visually attractive but slow to interact with. 
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  46. Lycos http://www.lycos.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • Lycos is one of the larger engines. It's well thought out and it has a huge database. 
    • The Lycos submission function uses a spider – just point it at your main page and it will create a listing for it. Lycos listings take two or three weeks to get into the engine's database. The Lycos spider creates its listings from the first few lines of text at your page, rather than from META tags, so the listings it generates can be a bit peculiar. 
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  47. Magellan http://www.mckinley.com/
    • Click on http://www.mckinley.com/magellan/Info/addsite.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • The Magellan directory is a reviewed list of selected web pages. While it has in the past accepted submissions, it was "currently in the midst of an editorial transition" when last we checked, and the doors were securely locked. Oddly, however, there was still an active field to enter a URL. 
  48. Metroscope http://www.Metroscope.com/
  49. My Shareware http://www.mysharewarepage.com/ 
    • My Shareware is a database of downloadable shareware – rather than actually archiving files, its listings include pointers to the pages of the creators of the applications in question. It's a nicely laid-out page, although the advertising density is a bit oppressive in places. 
    • As of this writing, My Shareware only appears to be willing to accept submissions through the Site Track software, which costs $49.95. This looks like a serious deal-breaker to me. 
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  50. Nerd World Media http://www.nerdworld.com 
    • Click on http://www.nerdworld.com/cgi-bin/nwadd.cgi to add your page to this engine. 
    • The Nerd World submission function is a bit confusing and somewhat lengthy – it also restricts the description of your page to a generous 256 characters. Uz lts of shrt wds & abrvatns. 
    • The Nerd World search function may be an acquired taste that I've failed to acquire – I found it unusually cumbersome. 
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  51. NetMall http://www.netmall.com 
    • Click on http://www.netmall.com/add/index.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • NetMall is an on-line mall and business search engine. It's agreeably unremarkable – the phrases "for a limited time only" or "make millions without even getting dressed" appear nowhere in its pages – and it's easy and straightforward to use. 
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  52. New Riders Yellow Pages http://www.mcp.com/newriders/wwwyp 
    • Click on http://www.mcp.com/directories/ypsubmit.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • The New Riders Yellow Pages is an aspect of the New Riders book publishing company, a division of Macmillan Computer Publishing. I recall speaking with someone at New Riders ages ago, who confirmed that the company was originally named after the band New Riders of the Purple Sage. Judging by this page, I doubt they're allowed to admit to that any more. If it looked any more corporate it would come with an espresso maker and Gucci loafers. 
    • The submission function of the New Riders page is fairly straightforward, albeit with a long list of categories to wade through. One suspects that it serves to generate content for the book of the same name. It likes to remind you of your place in the universe – as of this writing, when you're done with your submission, it will say "You will be notified by e-mail if and when your entry is added to the Yellow Pages" and present you with a nonfunctional link to return the main Yellow Pages page. 
    • This page features a lot of advertising, not surprisingly with much of it trying to plug computer books. 
    • As nearly as I could tell, this engine does not object to adult sites. I think this is one of the places journalists from 20/20 come to enter "porn" as a key word and illustrate how dangerous the Internet is becoming to young minds. 
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  53. Northern Light http://www.northernlight.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.northernlight.com/docs/register.htm to add your page to this engine. Don't try to find the submission function by yourself – it's diabolically well hidden. 
    • Northern Light offers some basic search functions for free, but charges its customers for more sophisticated use of its facilities. It doesn't charge for submissions. Its submission function is agreeably simple. 
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  54. NTWare http://www.ntware.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.ntware.com/html/submit.html to submit your shareware to this page. 
    • NTWare accepts submissions of shareware that runs under Windows NT. It's a bit confusing to use, but enjoyably funky. Its submission page says things like "In some case[sic] your software will be placed online before being rated. This will only happen when we are swamped with submissions and do not have time to rate them all right away. If you software makes it online, then you can be assured that we intend to assign it at least the minimum rating. We will not place a piece of software online and then take it off because it failed to meet the minimum rating." Unless it's a month with an R in it or the constellation Virgo is in alignment with Uncle Alonzo's Burger 'n Gas Emporium out on the interstate... 
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  55. Omphalos – The Center of the Pagan World http://www.omphalos.net 
    • Omphalos is a database of pagan web pages and other resources. It's fairly small as of this writing, but superbly laid out. 
    • For the curious... I presume the name "omphalos" refers to a phallic stone which existed in the temple of Apollo at Delphi in classical times. It was regarded as marking the centre of the earth. The name is from the Greek for "navel." 
    • Click on http://www.omphalos.net/add.cgi to add your page to this engine. 
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  56. One World Plaza http://owplaza.com 
    • Click on http://www.owplaza.com/Register.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • WARNING: This engine has an option which will automatically add your e-mail address to a mailing list unless you explicitly disable it. 
    • One World Plaza isn't a search engine – it offers a categorized list of business web pages. You can submit your page for consideration. 
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  57. PC World http://www.pcworld.com/fileworld/ 
    • This is a shareware database run by the publisher of PC World magazine. It encompasses a relatively small library of applications as I write this – although its creators clearly have taste, as they've included some of ours. Submitting files to PC World is somewhat more cumbersome than it needs to be, and the 100-word description field could use a bit of breathing room. 
    • To submit shareware to this engine, click on the Upload Files link in the black bar at the left side of the main page. 
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  58. Pigeons.Net http://pigeons.net/ 
    • Click on the Submit Software link to add your shareware to this engine. 
    • Pigeons is a search engine for shareware. Its category list is available in a frame at left side of its page, all in the tiniest type imaginable. Those with poor eye-hand coordination or jumpy mice need not apply. While it has a lot of categories, as of this writing it didn't seem to have a large number of listings to fill them. It also has a particularly unintuitive search function. 
    • The submission page is arguably a bit more involved than it has to be. 
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  59. Planet Search http://www.planetsearch.com/ 
    • Click on Add URL near the bottom of the main page to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is an agreeable little search engine, although the pastel colours remind me of a nightmare I once had about being locked in a Toys R Us shop after midnight. The only search engines I've encountered with simpler addition features had telepathy functions to suck your URL directly from your brain. 
    • Planet Search is based on a spider that will visit the pages you provide it with to generate listings for its database. Note that it generates entries from the first few lines of text at your page, rather than from META tags – its listings can be a bit peculiar for this reason.. 
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  60. Prosper Net http://www.prospernet.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.prospernet.com/add.htm to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is a categorized listing of businesses on the web. Its search facility appears to call Open Text to do its searching.. 
    • As of this writing, its submission function appears to be broken. Click on the link to add a new entry to the Prosper Net database returns to the main page. While an interesting metaphor for the vicissitudes of life, it's less than wholly productive... dare I say prosperous? 
  61. Rescue Island http://www.comcomsystems.com/rihome.html 
    • Click on http://www.comcomsystems.com/s_page.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • Rescue Island clearly deserves several superlatives. It is, for example, the search engine most completely overwhelmed by its decor. It has funky beach graphics oozing from every pore and crevasse, like the drool that dangles from the jowls of a St. Bernard after it's been fed too much. I found the animated surfer the most annoying – your experience may differ. It has the most diabolically concealed submission function of any of the engines reviewed – I only stumbled upon it by blind luck. It has the most convoluted submission requirements of any search engine I tried. Lesser prizes include the largest number of generic animated graphics and JavaScripts and the most unworkable search function. 
    • You'll probably want to have quick shower after you've used this one, to wash all the virtual sand crabs out of your hair. 
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  62. Scrub the Web http://scrubtheweb.com/ 
    • Click on http://scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • This is a medium-size general search engine with a fairly manageable submission function and less than the average level of dogma and requisite chain-saw juggling. Its submission rules are a bit nasty – they say things like "If the guidelines above are not followed our system may automatically place you in our banned list. Don't test our system as it will only hurt you in the long run." Don't test me, boy, or I give ya a woopin' ya won't fergit fer a month o' sundays... 
    • If I didn't really hate spiders, I'd certainly have thought the hygienic spider graphic at this page was cute as hell. 
    • The submission function has a page description field with a thirty-five word maximum. 
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  63. Select Surf http://selectsurf.com 
    • Click on http://www.selectsurf.com/addsite/ to add your page to this engine. 
    • WARNING: This engine will automatically add your e-mail address to a mailing list whether you want it to or not. 
    • While not a bad search engine, the automatic spam function is a tad annoying. I get enough e-mail I don't want as it is. If you mourn for your lost youth, be sure to click on the "criteria" link in the submission page. It will make you feel like you're back in highschool. It says, in part "All sites are carefully evaluated by the SelectSurf evaluation team on the basis of content, usefulness, presentation, ease of use, and originality. Each site is ranked according to the evaluation criteria on a 10-point scale with a rating of 5 being noteworthy and 10 being exceptional. Generally, sites selected for inclusion in the SelectSurf guide must attain an Overall Rating in the 90th percentile or higher." 
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  64. Shareware.COM http://www.shareware.com/ 
    • Click on http://search.shareware.com/SW/Help/Register/ for information about adding entries to this database. 
    • Shareware.COM doesn't index web pages – it maintains a database of downloadable shareware on other servers around the net. You can add to its database by uploading your shareware to archives which it indexes. 
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  65. Shareware Junkies http://www.Sharewarejunkies.com/ 
    • This is an archive of reviews of shareware written by the authors of the page. Click on http://www.Sharewarejunkies.com/Working/authcom.htm to suggest software for the junkies to consider. 
    • Shareware Junkies is a well thought-out, nicely executed page with that rarest of all commodities on the Internet – content. It's more than just a database of links. 
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  66. Snap http://www.snap.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.snap.com/main/help/item/0,11,home-8450,00.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • Snap is one of the larger search engines, and a well thought-out one. Submitting things to it is a bit cumbersome, as it requires that you drill down through its pages to find a category. Its submission review process is less than optimally quick. It says of itself "Please keep in mind that thousands of entries each day undergo an editorial review before they appear on Snap. If your site does not appear in any searches after six weeks, feel free to re-submit the entry. " 
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  67. SoftSeek Safelink http://safelink.softseek.com/ 
    • This is a database of shareware. Click on http://safelink.softseek.com/submit/index.html to add your shareware to this engine. 
    • SoftLink has an extensive database of listings. Its submission form is a bit more cumbersome that it probably needs to be, but it has a very large description field. 
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  68. Soft Watcher http://www.softwatcher.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.softwatcher.com/submit/index.html to add your shareware to this engine. 
    • Soft Watcher accepts submissions of downloadable shareware, rather than web pages. It's agreeably easy to submit things to. 
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  69. Sunbrain http://www.sunbrain.com/ 
    • This one's a bit mysterious – as of this writing, it features a submission form, but no search engine. The latter appears to still be in the works. There's no indication of what Sunbrain will actually do, save that it will have a logo with a disembodied brain in it. Its home page says "a new era in knowledge is about to begin." Speaking for myself, I'm not sure I could stand another new era – they seem to have been arriving at a rate of two or three per week of late. (Dammit, Edith, I thought you sprayed the place for brains last week. I just found 'nother one of the bloody things in my best hat...) 
    • The submission function of Sunbrain seems fairly easy to use. As there's no indication of what Sunbrain will look like at the moment, the Advertising and Worth the Effort fields, below, have been left blank. 
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  70. Super Mall http://www.supermall-association.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.supermall-association.com/Info.htm to add your page to this engine, then click on Free Submission Form. If you want to access this function from the main page, click on the animated graphic at the left end of the main title, labeled "free web pages." I think you may also have to click your heels three times and say "there's no place like home, there's no place like home..." The owners of this search engine aren't above making you jump through a few hoops. 
    • Supermall Association is a database of businesses available on the net. 
    • Unlike most search engines, this one would really like you to pay for your entry. While basic entries seem to be provided at no cost – albeit rather grudgingly – paid entries are allowed to include more key words and a description of more than twenty-five words. The free submission form also notes "As a new temporary member of the advertising and marketing association, you are required to read the SMA guidelines" (or vee vill make you vish you had read zem, veb-surfing svine!!!) The guidelines include enough fine print to cover the terms and conditions for leasing a medium-sized aircraft carrier. Among them are the threat to remove your entry from the engine's database if you don't place a link graphic back to Supermall Association at your page. They maintain a "blackball database" of personae non grata, too. 
    • If we had a prize for the most overbearing and generally offensive submission process, it would go to Supermall Association without any dissent. If you're over eight years old, you'll doubtless object to its tone as well. 
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  71. The Links http://www.search.thelinks.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.thelinks.com/topic_addlink.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • The Links is a categorized listing of page links. It has no search function, and none of the links have any descriptions at all.. 
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  72. Trade Wave/Galaxy http://galaxy.tradewave.com/ 
    • Click on http://galaxy.tradewave.com/cgi-bin/annotate?/galaxy to add your page to this engine. 
    • Galaxy is a somewhat friendlier engine than most – its submission form includes no threats or demands that you remove any and all curl from your facial hair prior to submitting your link. However, as of this writing, it does require a twenty-five dollar bribe – excuse me, preferential processing fee – if you want your listing considered within the next thirty days. Specifically, it says "For a site to be added to Galaxy, it must be carefully reviewed by our staff to assure that it will contribute to meeting our goals. We receive many more requests to add sites to the Galaxy Directory than we can process. To guarantee a timely review and decision on your request for your site to be added to Galaxy, we must charge a non-refundable $25 fee. With this fee we can assure that your site is reviewed within 30 days and that you receive an email response disclosing our decision. Even if you choose not to pay the fee, your site will still be eligible for review by Galaxy, however, since our backlog is large and our staff available for these reviews is small, there can be no assurance that your site will be reviewed in a timely manner. Thank you for your interest in Galaxy." One can but speculate on the goals involved. 
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  73. USA Online http://www.usaol.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.usaol.com/freeHomepage.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • USA Online notes that it's not affiliated with America On Line. This is fairly obvious, as you won't get a busy signal when you try to connect to it. Despite its name and all manner of American flag graphics at its page, USA Online does have regional categories for Canada and Other. One wonders what people who come from the land of Other would be called... Otharians, Otherites, Othericans, Othereans... 
    • USA Online is primarily a business directory. It has a search function – slightly buried – but clearly users of the page are intended to browse through its entries by category. It claims to have over 132,000 entries as of this writing. 
    • The submission form at USA Online is relatively short, albeit with a peculiar selection of required fields. 
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  74. Webaholics http://www.aaa.com.au/webaholics/index.shtml 
    • Click on http://www.aaa.com.au/webaholics/add.shtml to add your page to the Webaholics classified ad list 
    • Webaholics hails from Australia, where all the beer commercials have blonds in them. They note "Webaholics is used by schools. Do Not List Adult Sites Here. Sex Fiends! Please refrain from putting pornography on the list. If you use markup tags these will be stripped from your entries, because constant screw-ups necessitate it." Are you allowed to say "screw ups" around kids? 
    • This is a general classified ad page... 'cept for adult sites, which you've probably already guessed. The submission form is agreeably short. Note that adding entries to Webaholics doesn't send them to a permanent search engine database. They only stick around 'til they fall off the end of the classified ad list... probably a few hours at best. 
    • In keeping with its name, the Webaholics page looks like it has been designed by drunks. 
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  75. Web 100 http://www.web100.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.web100.com/other/submit.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • This page purports to offer the hundred best web pages on the net, as voted on by its users. It changes hourly. Because pages submitted to this engine don't stick around all that long, it's arguably not prime grazing land for announcing new resources on the web. 
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  76. Webopedia http://www.webopedia.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.webopedia.com/sub_url/new_url.html to add your page to the Webopedia database. 
    • Webopedia purports to be a search engine devoted to computer technology. It has a somewhat unintuitive user interface and search structure. One wonders whether there are any names which encompass the word "web" left for search engines. 
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  77. Web Ring http://www.webring.org/
    • This isn't a submission engine – it organizes topic-specific rings.
  78. Web Surfer http://www.io.com/websurfer/ 
    • Click on http://www.io.com/websurfer/submit.html for instructions about adding your page to this engine. As of this writing, the instructions were "To submit your site choose a category and e-mail the category, Site name, URL, and brief description to derae@io.com. Your site will be reviewed and if it is acceptable to The Websurfer, you will be contacted with further instructions." It's so totally retro... rad... groady... gag me with a spoon... 
    • The Web Surfer is a fairly small search engine – but you have to wonder how many months of head scratching and mind-numbing contemplation went into its name. While its submission function requests site descriptions, its listings don't appear to include them. All it lists are page titles, which makes finding things at this page a bit like hunting polecats with a flamethrower while blindfolded. 
    • If you use the Web Surfer's search function, you'll find yourself in Surf Point, another engine entirely. Surf Point is a meta engine, which uses Lycos, Alta Vista and several other popular engines to search the web. 
    • Several days after submitting a listing to this engine, we received a message which said in part "We quickly glanced at your site and it appears to be acceptable. However, due to the tremendous volume of acceptable sites added daily to the Websurfer directory, we are forced to charge a small one-time fee to include your site. If you would like your site permanently listed in the directory, please mail a $1.50 check (outside U.S. send $4.00 (US) cash only) or money order to:". Search engine service charges – perhaps the proprietors of this one used to work for a bank. 
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  79. Web This Week http://www.webthisweek.com 
    • Click on http://www.webthisweek.com/Submit4Review.asp?slk=0 to submit a web page for consideration. 
    • Web This Week is a directory of web page reviews. It's located in Canada, and seems to be a touch nationalistic – an unusually large number of its listings have .ca domains. You can almost hear the moose grazing and the liberals lying. It's well-designed and easy to use, although as of this writing its database seems to be fairly small. All but the most general search parameters got no hits when I tried it. The submission function is agreeably uncomplicated. Tell 'em where the page to be submitted is – they'll come by and scope it out. 
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  80. Whats New Too http://newtoo.manifest.com/ 
    • Click on http://newtoo.manifest.com/submit.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • What's New Too is one of the best announcement pages on the web, and one which we browse daily in house. 
    • This is definitely one of the engines you'll want to announce your pages to. Be warned – it's fairly thick with advertising and the submission form is arguably more complex than it needs to be. 
    • WARNING: This engine has an option which will automatically add your e-mail address to a mailing list unless you explicitly disable it. 
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  81. Whats New http://www.emap.com/whatsnew/ 
    • Click on http://www.whatsnew.com/whatsnew/submit/ to add your page to this engine. 
    • What's New is also a very worthwhile engine to submit your new listings to, although its somewhat miserly twenty-five word upper limit for descriptions is a drawback. 
    • What's New features a lot of advertising. When I first logged onto this page, I encountered a banner advertisement which proclaimed "scientology: think for yourself," clearly a contradiction in terms if ever there was one. 
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  82. WinFiles.com http://www.winfiles.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.winfiles.com/contact/apps.html to add your shareware to this engine. 
    • WinFiles is a search engine for Windows shareware – it accepts submissions of downloadable files, not web pages. Its well thought out, but its submission form is arguably more complicated than its needs to be, requiring things like the files date of the downloadable files in question. 
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  83. Windows Magazine http://www.winmag.com/library/1996/0996/09share.htm 
    • This is a database of shareware deemed worthy in the eyes of someone at Windows Magazine. We can hardly disagree with their opinions, as they've included some of ours. 
    • All ten points go to whoever figured out the submission procedure for this page. The whole submission section consists of "Seen any cool shareware? Contact us at topshareware@winmag.com. We'll send you a mug and a T-shirt for each item we publish." It would be hard to take issue with a system like that. 
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  84. WWW Business Yellow Pages http://www.cba.uh.edu/ylowpges/ylowpges.html 
    • Click on http://bau.cba.uh.edu/cgi-bin/newautosub to add your page to this engine. The description field of the submission form is limited to fifteen words – count 'em. If the description of your business is more involved than "cat assassin for hire – has own gun and stuffed mouse – reasonable rates, bodies cheerfully removed" you're in trouble. 
    • This engine is maintained by The University of Houston, College of Business Administration – suits in training. 
    • This is unquestionably the most businesslike business search engine I encountered. I wanted to dial 9 for an outside line and order fifty pizzas just looking at it.. 
    • The necessity of having abbreviated site descriptions means that searches with this engine turn up fairly ambiguous results a lot of the time.. 
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  85. Yahoo http://www.Yahoo.Com/ 
    • Unquestionably the most well-known search engine on the Internet, Yahoo is also the most cumbersome to add listings to. You must drill down through its extensive network of categories and sub-categories until you find one that your page belongs in, and then click on Add URL. Page descriptions are limited to 200 characters. As of this writing, there are four pages of things to fill out in submitting your web page to Yahoo. 
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  86. YelloWWWeb Pages http://www.YelloWWWeb.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.YelloWWWeb.com/freyel.htm to add your page to this engine. YelloWWW Pages offers basic listings at its engine at no cost as of this writing, with more extensive listings for a fee. Its submission field has a page description field limited to 65 characters. This will probably exclude pages created by people from some eastern European countries where long last names are common. 
    • The profoundly abbreviated page descriptions at this engine make searching for things an exercise in probability theory. The dog graphic is kind of cute, but I don't think it would be enough to make me want to use YelloWWWeb on a regular basis. 
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  87. Yellow Pages Plus http://www.roomedia.com/ypp/ 
    • Click on http://www.eypages.com/listing_info.htm#FREE Listing to add your page to this engine. At least, that appears to be what's supposed to happen. Having done so, you must click on the Free Listing link, which was broken as of this writing. I should also note that a free listing gets you a URL, a page name and so on – but no page description, as nearly as I could tell. It will also get you e-mailed once a month to "confirm" your listing – failing to confirm it will cause it to be deleted from the database. A "gold" listing, for sixty dollars a year – that's a mere five dollars a month, sixteen little pennies per day, almost nothing per second, step right up ladies and gentlemen – will get you a page description and no nagging. 
    • For more productive exposure of your web page, get a can of spray paint and write your URL on the sides of passing cows. 
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  88. YellowPages.com http://www.YellowPages.com/ 
    • Click on http://www.YellowPages.com/yp_list.htm to add your page to this engine. As of this writing, this engine wants ninety dollars a year to include your listing. Prior to reaching for your plastic, check out the existing business listings at this page. 
  89. Zen Search http://www.zenation.com/zensearch/ 
    • Click on http://www.zensearch.com/AddURL.html to add your page to this engine. 
    • The Zen Search page submission form, perhaps in keeping with its name, is a bit new age and spacy. It includes categories like Cyberculture and La' Musica, but it dogmatically restricts page descriptions to twenty-five words or less. 
    • The Zen Search page says of itself "Zen Search is a totally new way to look at a search engine. Instead of getting 10 out of 100,000 results for your search on AltaVista, we only provide links to sites that add some value to the web, Quality sites if you will. Of course this adds the editorial decision of just what makes a Quality Site ?" Clearly, it isn't grammar or punctuation. 
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