GoogleGuy - 2:57 am on May 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hey folks! I'm trying to broaden my horizons and make it out of forum3 more often. :) gstewart, that's an interesting way of testing freshness. I just did a quick search for WORM_PALYH.A on the engines you mentioned and got
MSN - 17 results
AV - 58 results
ATW - 38 results
GG - 373 results

Not sure why you didn't get any, but I agree that freshness is helpful. cindysunc, it's a little-known fact that AV's choice of which pages to refresh is done by looking at what search results are clicked on. I'm guessing that your pages were crawled because you clicked on them.

If you want to optimize for AV (and I always encourage SEOs to diversify and to optimize for non-Google search engines ;) then you could keep updating your pages and clicking on them in search results to try different experiments about what works well for your site.