paid inclusion
 

Which do you think has better potential return for inclusion: inktomi or altavista, altavista is $79 for 6 months and inktomi $39 for a year...?

Google has the best :)

I would say Inktomi based on the prices and traffic volumes of the respective engines but it really depends on what your marketing. Altavista might be more expensive but if its less competitive to get a page spidered you might get more hits than Inktomi. It's really tough to tell on these inclusion packages.

WG

if you have to pay for SE listing then you are doing something wrong imho

PPC is working great for our porn empire, I think it depends on various factors...