Teoma

Teoma is a technology company that measures the authority as well as the popularity of web sites. It powers other search engines, specifically Ask Jeeves, as well as powering its own search engine. It is owned by Ask Jeeves who merged DirectHit with Teoma in early April 2002.

Teoma uses what they have branded as Subject-Specific Popularity that ranks a site based on the number of same-subject pages in other ranked sites that link to it, not just general popularity (page count), to determine a site's level of authority. It does not help to be in a Link Farm. Teoma also has crawling spider technology and thus any submission will lead to a full site being indexed.Initial results are sponsored Google AdWord links.

Teoma / Ask Jeeves: One of the most definitive sources that I have found is at AskJeeves/Teoma who define the acts that will keep you from being ranked.

Read this between the lines -- no spamming, no doorway pages, no redirection, and no cloaking.
Report spam: help@teoma.com

The thing to remember is that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Teoma before you register your pages. Just registering with Teoma does not assure a suitable ranking.

The following search engines or directories provide content to Teoma:
Ask Jeeves (submission)
Google

The following search engines receive content from Teoma:
Ask Jeeves