pageoneresults - 6:36 pm on Jun 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

Anyone else seeing this problem?

Yes. I can confirm more than a few instances of old URIs still appearing in the Ask index. Stuff from more than a year ago. I don't want to dig any further for fear of what I may find. ;)

If there is one protocol that has really thrown all the SEs for a loop, its the 10.3 Redirection 3xx methods, particularly 301 and 302.

<added to rant> Damn! I just removed a bunch of 301s that were in place for at least 24 months. I spot checked the top three search engines and all was updated. Our ini file was getting a little crammed so I did some spring cleaning. And here I am the one that adamantly supports keeping 301s in place forever!

I just did some advanced searches and sure enough, Ask has many old URIs still indexed. And some of those are now 404 due to spring cleaning. Just great! Ask.com is a prime reason why we adamantly support keeping 301s in place forever! I'm off to pull backup copies and put them back in place. Grumble, grumble, grumble...

Okay, I'm taking my .1% (of your current 1.8%) marketshare away from you.