The AltaVista Search Engine

AltaVista is one of the first real search engines. It uses a combination of pay per click advertising and natural search engine results in its returns. The top 3 listings in a search result are from Overture, a PPC search engine with vast coverage across may important search engines.

A submission to the AltaVista submit a link page will get your page spidered in about 6 weeks. A link in AltaVista has a positive effect on your Google page rank since they consider AltaVista to be an authority site.

You can get a top 3 ranking across several sites like AltaVista if you get an Overture account and bid for the top 3 position for your keywords.