steveb - 2:39 am on Feb 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

Could we keep the Google rants in the Google Rants forum please.

The free inclusion thing sounds very nice. While people tend to think of those as placebos, there seems like there is good evidence that the FAST free inclusion did eventually lead to free pages being crawled (although for me is stops at about 50% of the pages).

What I'd like to know is:
1) what is this FAST Enterprise Crawler thing? I love it, even if I don't see any results of its efforts yet.

2) what will Yahoo be feeding MSN? Currently Inktomi, and Inktomi PFI, feed MSN. Will there be a different database that feeds MSN (which seems weird since it obviously would never be as good as the best product Yahoo creates)? Will pre-March 1st PFI pages be unaffected in terms of MSN? Inktomi via its resellers has contracts with lots of folks, like me, who pfi'ed pages to be in MSN. Those pages never had a "right" or contract to be in Yahoo, so the April 15th date is a non-issue, but it would seem to be a clear breach of contract for those listings to die on April 15th so far as MSN is concerned.