ATW Updates

Are they rolling or monthly/bi-monthly.

[Canary]

Lots of new pages listed for my sites.

Are ATW updates rolling or monthly - like the big G or when they feel like it?

[heini]

Canary, ATW updates in chunks and slices. Frankly I have not been able to establish a pattern. Looking over the refresh dates on large and small sites I can't say I have found a way to force a refreshed listing yet.

[Tim]

We roll a new index every 7-8 days. This refreshes a little over a quarter of the index. We also have a daily update which refreshes 5-10 million pages.

[heini]

Hey, Tim, thanks for the info!

The daily update, that's not the news crawling, I assume? (as those are respidered comtinuously)
What kind of sites do you refresh daily?

[HitProf]

Hello Tim,

It's very good to have a Fast rep over here.
Hope you will participate and shed some light on some of our our questions.

[Canary]

Good Stuff - Thanks for all the replies.

Impressive to refresh quarter of the index over 7-8 days.

Getting some good referrals from some of ATW search partners at the moment too :)

[indigojo]

Wow this is a pretty impressive update from where I sit

[Rumbas]

Tim, thanks for clarifying that. Much apreciated.

>daily updates

Nice. I'd really like to know too, what you base the selection of sites that get updated on?

[heini]

*Slaps Head*
I guess Tim is talking about the PFI listings here.

[Rumbas]

Guess you're right heini.
Wasn't their a number of PFI pages in the db floating around somewhere? If I remember correctly it was in that ball park area. Not sure my memory serves me here though..

On the other hand I see some pages that I know are not PFI get respidered on a rather frequently basis.

[Tim]

We have a crawl of both PFI and free pages every 24-48 hours. The number I was referring to was free crawled pages not paid. Of course we have paid inclusion too.

[heini]

Tim, thanks for clarifying. In any case I'd love to know which free pages get refreshed every 24-48 hours?

[Canary]

Yep, I wonder if we are talking about the same quarter of the index being refreshed - much like Altavista and Google do with their fresh dates or a different quarter so the whole index is update once every 28-32 days.

[Gonzalez]

Hi,

Like said before, FAST does not spider the site at once. Last month I renamed a few pages and ATW lists both old and new file names. I think this will corrected once the spider tries to index old pages. I believe also that they don't do a massive update like Google. As they get new pages indexed they add it almost "live".

[jranes]

Thanks for the info Tim. You guys are doing a great job.

[h_b_k]

How often is FAST-Webcrawler deepcrawling sites?

using the URL Investigator I can read about "Last changed". (for my homepage 2003-06-09).
But this date is valid for the Homepage only, not for all other pages.

Last time FAST-Webcrawler visited parts of my site, was 2003-05-06.
After then FAST-Webcraler/3.7./Firstpage visited regularly (every 1-4 days) the homepage (index.shtml) only.

h_b_k

(date format: yyyy-mm-dd)

[edited by: h_b_k at 12:03 pm (utc) on June 11, 2003]

[trillianjedi]

Tim,

Glad we finally got you to surface. Did you get a response to the BT email by the way?

TJ

[h_b_k]

today I have noticed the first deepcrawl since 2003-05-06 this means, they have a schedule for my site of about 1,5 months?

is this depending on the "importance" of a page?
or is 1,5 month today the regular behavior of fast?

time before I had a shorter cycle of deepcrawls.