You got some great start info there.
I have to agree/disagree with Scott on some of this:
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There are only about 6 major search engines out there. All of which use a spider. So eventually his site will be found by the rest of them. These 6 SEs provide the results to all the others.
Eventually is not good enough as you want to be found ASAP. Results vary considerably in listing priority between the search engines and once you have been listed you have to do some manual searching for the keyword phrases you were hoping to list for.
My experiments prove to me sites can be listed very quickly with little actual content if cross linked from as little as 2 regularly spidered sites that already have listings if not actual PR in Google.
My personal belief is you do not have to have a huge network of links and I have formed this opinion via experimentation. Experiment!