Try search engines like Metacrawler and go to the advanced search options. There you can tell it how sensitive you want it to search--tell it a longer "time out" period and it has time to dig deeper. Ask for more hits from particular sites. I use Hotbot when I want to see EVERYTHING that is out there and filter through it myself (versus letting the search engine decide what is "relevant").

For getting your site noticed, you need to put in effective meta text at the beginning of the site. A search engine spends a nanosecond scanning the first page or two of any site, and if the metalanguage is there, and the words you want to emphasize appear frequently, it is more likely to be picked up as a valid "hit."

If you sell hats, you can't get away with meta text that says "hat" "hat" "hat" "hat" "hat" "hat" "hat" "hat" "hat" "hat" "hat" "hat" "hat" "hat" because it knows to ignor this kind of duplication. But if you have "cowboy hat" "fireman's hat" "fur hat" "ball cap hat" "straw hat" "bowler hat" etc., it will notice all of those. So if you're selling guitars, name each one in your meta stuff at the beginning.

SRS