Googlebot comes looking at my project site on a daily basis an then will have a deeper crawl to the dynamic content slighly less often
Over the last couple of weeks i have read about Google having a few problems with there ranking algorythm, and as such spurious results have been given out to various terms and cached pages appeared to be months out of date. They seem to have it sorted now.
For more news on these sorts of issues
www.webmasterworld.com has hundreds of threads etc.
Cheers
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kat Street [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 15 May 2002 14:43
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Search engines used in UK Universities
>
>
> In our experience, Google indexes our site every few days. The main
> disadvantage of it is that it because it's external, it doesn't have
> access to UoN-only pages, so they're not indexed.
>
> It is extremely accurate though, and fast.
>
> Kat
>
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> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Brian Kelly wrote:
>
> | I will shortly be updating my survey of search engines used in UK
> | Universities - see
> | http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/surveys/uk-he-search-engines/
> |
> | Thanks to everyone who has emailed me with updates recently. If you
> | haven't done so, please check the entries and let me know of any
> | changes.
> |
> | ht://Dig is still the most popular, followed by a Microsoft
> solution (no
> | changes there for a while. In third place now is Google,
> which was not
> | available when the survey was initially carried out (and
> is, of course,
> | an externally hosted solution, with all of the implications
> that that
> | raises).
> |
> | A couple of people expressed concern at not knowing the indexing
> | frequency of Google and of the difficulties in getting any
> response from
> | them. Possibly as there are a number of Universities using Google,
> | including several large ones:
> |
> | Bristol - Derby - Glasgow School of Art - Newport -
> Lampeter - Lancaster
> | - Leeds - Manchester Business School - Nottingham - Reading
> (also uses
> | ht://Dig) - Royal Veterinary College - South Bank - St Mark
> and St John
> | - Warwick (also uses ht://Dig)
> |
> | It might be worth seeing if we can approach them en masse.
> |
> | Another interesting tactic which one person mentioned was
> negotiating a
> | discount for a licensed package by threatening to move to a free
> | solution such as ht://Dig. Others may be interested in
> this approach.
> |
> | Brian
> | ---------------------------------------
> | Brian Kelly
> | UK Web Focus
> | UKOLN
> | University of Bath
> | BATH
> | BA2 7AY
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> | Web: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
> | Phone: 01225 38 3943
> |
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