Something is up with Fast

[Brett_Tabke]

The old spiders have went silent from fast (picked up the homepage yesterday is all). This is after a long spidering onslaught for two weeks.

They are up to something. ;) stay tunned...

btw: for those that know Tim Mayer, he has left Inktomi and joined AllTheWeb as Vice President of Web Search. Congrats Tim.

I wonder if they are connected?

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 8:24 am (utc) on June 5, 2002]

[lazerzubb]

HIHI, i wondered why Tim wasn't talking for Inktomi at a conference i attended recently :)

Well i am sure he will do a good job, and that we will see even harder rules for "spam" :)

I think they are up to something big, my guess is that they will come with something big next weekend ;)

[heini]

Fast has been adding and adding and adding pages to the index ... perhaps they decided enough is enough ;)

I'm pretty sure they finally crack the 2 Bill. mark.
Last I heard they were only some thousand pages short.

[Marcia]

Fast is using the regular homepage title and the ODP description for a site - a combo of the two. That's on a few searches - for another search the same actual title, but only about 8 words out of the description that's on the site itself, not ODP.

[Abrexa_UK]

We had a massive amount of Fast spidering yesterday (4th) and several hundred pages today (5th) from our new directory. So I think that the Fast spider is still going.

[Abrexa_UK]

FAST finally finished its spidering of our sites yesterday, so hopefully, we will see an update soon.

[Bradley]

Are people seeing the following spider index their site pretty hard?:

cr006r01-test.sac2.fastsearch.net - - [27/May/2002:17:53:08 -0500] "GET .........deleted for post.................." 200 9365 "-" "FAST-WebCrawler/3.2 test"

Currently, my site is not listed within FAST at all, but I am hoping that FAST will be indexing pages from this spider in the future.