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WANT TO JOIN THE SEA?

If you own/run an expert web directory or search engine, then SEA membership will allow you to band together with a group of fellow site owners for joint marketing activities.

The only commitment you must make is to place the SEA membership badge prominently on your home page.

New members will be considered for SEA membership when they meet the criteria below.

This is a fairly common sense set of guidelines, and is intended to (a) clear up any confusion about what doth a search engine or directory make (b) set the high quality-hurdle we expect our members to clear.

  • Applicants must have their own URL (e.g. www.yourname.com) devoted to the sole use of their search engine
  • Sites should be comprehensive in their coverage of their chosen sector
  • The overriding mission / content of the site must be to point to external Net resources (e.g. almost all sites have lists of their favorite URLs, but this isn't the same as being a search engine or directory)
  • Potential members should strike a common sense balance between being too broad, or too narrow in their focus. E.g. a directory of science sites is fine, a directory of sites devoted to the breeding habits of the mottle-backed newt is too specialist
  • A search engine or directory is defined as a resource that points to 'external' sites (not a site that contains lots of info. on a specific subject, but doesn't link to outside sites)
  • We'll immediately strike off any member found carrying out Net-unfriendly behavior ... spamming out junk e-mail, covertly redirecting to hate sites, covert redirects towards unrequested advertiser's sites etc.

To apply, send an e-mail to newmembership@searchenginealliance.com with details of your URL, subject indexed, plus a short abstract. Try the same format we use to list engines and directories on our home page.
 


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