makemetop - 10:59 am on Aug 25, 2000 (gmt 0)

The last thing I heard from my contact at Freeserve was last Friday when they said they had not yet had a full answer from Inktomi but there was a problem with add URL rankings. On Freeserve, people who are using Freeserve Marketplace are meant to come up above the normal Inktomi rankings. Freeserve were having a problem getting this to work properly and asked me if I had any idea how Inktomi were now spidering!!!

The add URL problem is the same thing which Canada.com have been saying. Could be the search clusters are finding it difficult to cope with Inktomi's experiments as they filter in different ways and serve up different databases depending on usage, terms and relevence - but that's just a guess!

Any news from your Inktomi contact in London? At least BT have given a reasonably meaningful reply!