Several years ago, I helped NPC register its URL on to several major search engines. Although they took a couple of weeks before it’s done, they were all free of charges.
Last night, I tried to search for this site with James Mok’s Soliloquy as the search parameters in several major search engines, and only Overture came up with the exact match as their very first result! While a couple engines only found Tin’s blog containing the word Soliloquy, many others came up with all sorts of other sites with the word Soliloquy but this site.
I then went on and tried to register it to the usual search engines. All but AltaVista charge a fee, and AltaVista’s free registration will take 4-6 weeks. Surprisingly, Google, being one of the most powerful search engines around, was one that did not get a match with mine (but at least matched it with Tin’s), and it doesn’t even have a registration or sign-up function, at least not that I could find.
Contrary to this review on Meta-Search engines, Surfwax came up with an exact match as its very first result and it even listed out some of the contents on demand. But the problem is, Meta-Search engines themselves are not so widely known.
WhaUSay?!