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ChiroWeb Ranks High on Web's Major Search Engines

Dynamic Chiropractic Staff

As ChiroWeb has continued to grow, so has its status on the World Wide Web. A recent test using the search term "chiropractic" found ChiroWeb to rank at or near the top on 10 of the most widely used search engines.

Search Engine Ranking
  
Excite#1
Lycos#2
Northern Light#3
Google#5
Microsoft Network#7
Metacrawler#9
YahooWeb#9
Hotbot#17
Alta Vista#18
WebCrawler#43

Dynamic Chiropractic will continue to promote ChiroWeb to further educate the public about the benefits chiropractic has to offer. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments about the site.

April 2000
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