Re: AltaVista Meta Tag Rumour

Erik Selberg (selberg@cs.washington.edu)
21 Jan 1997 12:18:59 -0800

> This is a probably a result of them instituting the near-instant
> indexing. Since you can submit a page and see it appear in a day or
> two, it suddenly becomes much easier for spammers to submit many
> pages all at once and test if they can improve their rankings.

another possibility is that, since when you do instant-indexing at the
sundry services (altavista, infoseek, etc.) they only appear to index
the one page you submit. Wouldn't be difficult to write a perl script
to "instant-index" your entire site, which is what you want (although
that's probably not what AV wants... :)

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				Erik Selberg
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