Re: "real-time" spidering by Lycos

Otis Gospodnetic (otisg@panther.middlebury.edu)
Sat, 18 Jan 1997 21:46:07 -0500 (EST)


> > Does anyone know what's up with that 'real spidering' ?
> > Is it just temporarily not working, or do they have it there for
> > people to get impressed ?
>
> My experience is that it is hit and miss with Lycos instantly
> spidering a web page. If it has successfully gathered your page,
> you'll get this on the same page that comes up after you submitted
> your URL:
>
> We successfully spidered your page.
>
> followed by the URL and other information. If you don't get this
> information, the Lycos spider has failed to pick up the page for some
> reason.

heh, I got the successful page, but I monitored the logs, and nothing
from Lycos came in, not even once.

> Keep in mind that while the page may instantly be spidered, the page
> is NOT instantly added to the catalog. No one does this, although
> Alta Vista and Infoseek are the best. They will instantly spider a
> page and usually have it in the catalog in about two days.

I know, spidering != indexing :)
I didn't expect it to be in the catalogue right away, but I expected to see at
least one HEAD or GET from Lycos.

> Finally, remember that just because a page is instantly spidered, the
> site itself is not instantly crawled. That comes later, sometimes
> much later.

yes, I understand that, but not even one(1) page was instantly 'spidered'
(what kind of word is this anyway ?)

> "A Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines"
> http://calafia.com/webmasters/

interesting site ^^^

So, what's the answer ? None yet, right ? Lycos people are full of it or did
I just have a very bad luck 3-4 times in a row ?

Otis

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