mayor - 2:39 pm on Sep 18, 2002 (gmt 0)

>>FAST is a pay for inclusion device

I've tried their Lycos PFI program and got dismal results. I doubt they are making much money on it and failing to update their general index is probably causing them a lot of harm.

As one can surmise from the Inktomi PFI program, if you've got a lot of traffic the PFI program can increase short term revenues at the risk of a long term disaster.

I have one small site that just showed up in the Fast index after waiting about six months, not that it matters much because of the very small amount of traffic I expect from Fast/Alltheweb/Lycos. Some other new sites are still waiting.