COMPARISON OF "CRUISE LINE" SEARCH RESULTS
AGAINST MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES

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  MAJOR SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS**
RANK TOP SITES* NAME YAHOO MSN LYCOS
1 carnival.com Carnival Cruise Lines 7 9 2
2 rccl.com (Royal Caribb.) Royal Carribean Cruises link 12 na
3 ncl.com (Norwegian) Norwegian Cruise Lines link 13 16
4 renaissancecruises.com Renaissance Cruises na na na
5 princess.com Princess Cruises link na link
6 hollandamerica.com Holland America Cruises na 8 na
7 celebrity-cruises.com Celebrity Cruises na 10 na
8 premiercruises.com Premier Cruises link na na
9 windstarcruises.com Windstar Cruises na 7 na

  
MAJOR SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS**
RANK TOP SITES* NETSCAPE EXCITE ALTAVISTA IWON
1 carnival.com 9 na 11 5
2 rccl.com (Royal Caribb.) 12 na 16 na
3 ncl.com (Norwegian) na na link na
4 renaissancecruises.com 17 na na na
5 princess.com 10 na link na
6 hollandamerica.com na na na na
7 celebrity-cruises.com na na 19 na
8 premiercruises.com na na link 3
9 windstarcruises.com 3 na na na

  
MAJOR SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS**
RANK TOP SITES* SNAP DIRECTHIT GOOGLE ASKJEEVES
1 carnival.com 3 5 1 8
2 rccl.com (Royal Caribb.) 1 18 8 na
3 ncl.com (Norwegian) 4 7 2 10
4 renaissancecruises.com na na na na
5 princess.com link link 6 na
6 hollandamerica.com link na na na
7 celebrity-cruises.com link 8 5 11
8 premiercruises.com na na 14 na
9 windstarcruises.com 11 na na na
Notes:
1. **Numbers listed under search engines indicate position assigned to a site in their results.
2. *PC Data ranking is based objectively on unique monthly visitors.
3. Searches conducted on 4/5/00 with search string "cruise lines".
4. "na" indicates site was not available in the top 20 listings on the search engine.
5. "link" indicates the search engine had a link to the site, but not as a search result.

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