Iguana - 8:08 pm on Sep 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

I was certainly penalised for about 2 years in Inktomi when Yahoo used them. They had about 64 of my 3,000+ pages and they would come last even on exact string searches for my page titles.

Then after 2 or 3 months of Yahoo having their own listings (based on Inktomi) I suddenly re-appeared with a vengence. I now have 3,600 pages indexed and they are highly ranked in their field. Funnily enough, they re-appeared about 10 days after I banned Slurp in my robots.txt - but I'm sure that wasn't the reason why.

I assume this was all based on manual review.