SearchHippo is a smaller search engine that may not quite as small as it appears. SearchHippo has been very aggressive in allowing free use of it's search results via XML. This means that a lot of metasearch engines use SH. Some small directories have also started using SearchHippo's feed as a backfill for their own directory results. On a small budget SH has managed to gain some ground.
SearchHippo only spiders the index page of a site, it does take into account some off page elements for ranking in the SERP's. A backlink to SH increases the chance of being spidered into the DB.
If you are a small directory developer SearchHippo is worth looking at for free backfill search results since their quality is IMO better than most of the pay-per-click search feeds that might be available.
Recent discussions on SearchHippo include:
http://forums.spider-food.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4469
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum16/792.htm
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