Craigslist Not Blocking Major Crawlers - Contrary to reports, Craigslist has not embarked upon a new policy of blocking search engine spiders, but talking with Craigslist along with some further poking at the situation shows that's not the case.
Meet The Crawlers SearchDay, July 21, 2004 http://searchenginewatch.com/_subscribers/articles/article.php/3383881 The head of Yahoo Labs talks about the competition, the challenge of balancing searcher needs with webmaster desires, the future, and...
What other areas are problems for web crawlers? I think one of the most challenging problems for crawlers is load balancing, scheduling, and balancing freshness with "niceness. The impact of links and link text on search engine placement.
Do you envision a time when searchers can literally create their own web databases by sending out their own crawlers to build them? Do I envision personal crawlers and indices? Many of the key people in product search live within a business unit...
Do you still see a need for targeted crawlers and focused databases? How can Yahoo Research Labs make search better? In other words, the search engine would be an artificial intelligence (AI) so smart that if a correct answer could be found in...
They also operate powerful crawlers. Google Shows a Map to Your House - Google Tweaks Local Search Out of the Labs - What Does Traffic Estimator Include? Yahoo released a new version of its news search engine late last week, a new move in what may...
That benefit on Yahoo has now essentially disappeared, and the benefit for crawlers was never there to begin with. Instead, the wave of them emerged soon after longer domain names arrived, where the thought was that embedding keywords would be...
I remember writing about the first porn filters for crawlers back in 1998. About two years ago, I moderated a panel involving VeriTest (then known as eTesting Labs). SearchDay - Yahoo Moves to Revitalize Search SearchDay, April 07, 2003 http...
Even though Google's news crawlers are constantly updating Google News' 4,000 sources of information, alternative internet sources are gaining a reputation for breaking important news stories more quickly than traditional media sources.
AllTheWeb is also watching for "gibberish" pages, those where the text may make no sense to a human reader, despite having a sentence structure intended to make it appear normal and relevant to crawlers.
