Netscape: Owned by America Online, they also display GoTo's listings under what's called "Partner Search Results" but only top two bid positions are shown.

HotBot: The top three GoTo bids show up on HotBot's search results page under title "Featured Listings."

MSN: After performing a search on MSN, results page has a link that says "Get Top 10 Most Popular Sites for [ keyphrase you searched]". When you click through, first three listings you'll see are top three bids from Goto for that keyword or phrase.

CompuServe: If you're in top ten at GoTo.com, you'll show up in searches at CompuServe. All of their search results appear to be supplied by GoTo and are labeled as "Premium Web Pages."

CNET: If you perform a search on CNET you'll see GoTo.com's top three listings for that particular word/phrase appearing in right hand column in a box titled "Goto.com Search Partners."

NBCI: NBCi appears to be pulling top 15 GoTo search results to be displayed on their results page. By clicking "more results" at bottom of page, additional GoTo listings are displayed.

DogPile: The first ten results from GoTo.com are displayed on DogPile's search results page. Below those you'll see LookSmart's results followed by Sprinks listings.

As you can see, positioning yourself in top three positions with GoTo can get you some major exposure on many of most popular search engines and directories online today. If you've been hesitant about opening your own GoTo account you may want to reconsider after seeing how widespread their reach is. Remember, with GoTo you're not paying for impressions - only for actual click throughs, and traffic you'll receive is highly targeted. More bang for your buck, so to speak.

By partnering with GoTo and obtaining a "premium listing," you too can be listed at top of search engines and isn't that what everyone wants?

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