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:: Sunday, September 15, 2002 ::
Search Engine Nascar Races
According to Brent Winters' latest reporting, the top engines are pushing their strollers a bit faster to compete with FAST (AlltheWeb)...which apparently accounts for the lightening speed indexing some of us have been witnessing at Google...and possibly the weird stuff going on over in Yahoo! Yahoo Mystery
When FAST announced this summer it exceeded having index 2 billion documents, which blew Google's claims as the "biggest", the top search portal brass clamored to compete.
Winters' mentions that Google "began indexing pages with high link popularity (or more accurately, high "PageRank") in as little as 24 hours. Indexing of other sites is also happening more frequently than before, but can still take up to 3-4 weeks depending upon the site. Google also struck a deal getting AOL and IWon to drop their Inktomi listings in favor of serving Google's results."
This is a huge loss of exposure for Ink. One of the reasons I suggest paying for INK is the AOLSearch exposure (I don't consider IWON a search engine. It's a gimmick/Ads site.)
When Winters claims Google began indexing pages with high PR in as little as 24 hours I have to assume he meant existing sites, since a new site doesn't come flying out the gate with high PR.
Note that Winters mentioned Ink has announced a new feature to improve relevancy and Yahoo! still hasn't announced if it will keep Google results or switch back to Ink or try FAST. Would love to be a fly on that wall!
The WebPositionGold newsletter is always a good read. You don't have to buy the product to receive the free newsletter or join their forum for SEO support - MarketPosition Newsletter
To follow the thread on this click Google IS indexing faster, INK has a new relevancy algo?
:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 9/15/2002 09:42:58 AM
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