Re: Fast and Scooter crawlers - worthwhile at all?

Hi,

While we get little traffic from Altavista, we are getting more and more
from FAST. The engine made several significant algorithm changes, and is
delivering very good search results. These come from alltheweb and Lycos.

With the acquisition of Overture by Yahoo!, we will see the consolidation of
the technologies behind Inktomi, FAST and Altavista. This combines what may
be the best pure crawler technology with the fastest search database tool.

All said, yes, you definitely want them to visit and index you often.

Richard
www.metamend.com
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"no one" <invisibleperson (AT) noonenowhere (DOT) com> wrote

Like many of you, I get most of my hits from Google. I have hundreds
of pages on my site, and Google grabs virtually all of them and
delivers traffic to them. I do get limited traffic from MSN and Hotbot
(Inktomi) - nowhere near what I get from Google but still probably
worth the cost of the Inktomi visits to my site.

On the other hand, the Fast and Scooter webcrawlers visit often and
gobble up almost everything but give me almost no hits back. Nothing
(from Altavista or Lycos, anyway). For all the bandwidth they eat up
crawling my site, my ROI is zero. I'm really tempted to ban them
altogether.

Thoughts? Anyone getting a significant amount of traffic from engines
using Fast or Scooter results?

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I.