mayor - 4:11 pm on Sep 19, 2000 (gmt 0)

I've never known of Ink to spider the web for indexing pages. Has anyone else seen Ink out spidering to index except for responses to Add URL? I would say Ink has sort of a reverse spider. If you don't submit pages via the add url's, they never get in. If you do submit via the add url's, they may get in, but rest assured most of them will drop before long. Maybe they spider for link popularity but I really don't think they do routine spidering to load their data base with web pages.

So, if the above posting about Ink is true, and it does appear to be factual, our worst fears are realized ... Ink has basically shut down more or less for good! Maybe they'll come back with a last hurrah trying to collect an exit fee disguised as a paid submission. If spamming is the reason they shut down, I don't see where paid submissions are going to change any of that.

But all is not lost. My site traffic is slowly recovering from the loss of Ink traffic. Could it be that surfers are abandoning the stale Ink portals and moving over to greener pastures, like Alta Vista and Google? People aren't stupid, you know. Does anyone know how long most surfers hang around a the carcus of a dead search engine when the party is over?