Italian search engines?

[french dread]

Buongiorno :)
What are the major search engines and directories really used in Italy nowadays?

[goldrake75]

www.arianna.it
www.google.it
www.msn.it (poered by inktomi)
www.virgilio (directory, secondary results provided by google)
www.yahoo.it (directory, secondary results provided by google)
www.tiscali.it (powered by fast)

[french dread]

thanks goldrake :)
is yahoo.it as big as in france or usa? does the free submission work for commercial websites?

[beke]

You can submit for free choosing "Yahoo Standard" (without any time inclusion warranty obviously) or pay them for a 7-days-site-review at the price of € 159 + IVA, this service is called... hmmmm... Yahoo Express :)

[beke]

DOH!

I forgot to say that you can submit also commercial websites and they usually include them in their index in one or two months...
up to now at least.

[french dread]

Grazie beke :)

Are there other mean and little specialized directories worth to submit? (the website I optimize is financial services)

[goldrake75]

Try this one: http://directory.b24.it/Economia_e_Affari/

[beke]

And this too...

http://categorie.iltrovatore.it/directoryitalia/pages/Affari_e_Finanza/

but it's not a "real" directory, because the address is something like

"http://categorie.iltrovatore.it/directoryitalia/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=somequery&catid="

so I guess this can be can be a little or no help for popularity growing...