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Is this true? (about NL penalising alt tags).
From what I've seen, read, and studied, nope. I just took a quick look through some of my favorite competitive terms, and cloaking, hidden links, almost but not exactly the same color text, and linkstoyou all seem to work fine. So even though I couldn't find you an example, I do know, for fact, that you can do pretty much whatever you want.
On a side note, I believe their relevance is coming up in the world. For some searches, I found .txt documents ranking well, which is refreshing.
Am I to understand that an Inktomi and Looksmart and DMOZ submission still won't suffice with this SE?
Yep. I believe, (feel free to correct me on this one) that they are the only major SE now not publically displaying directory data, or utilizing it in some shape or form as part of their ranking algorithm.
Instead, they have people who have a professional research and library background who categorize search results into their folders, which are displayed to the left when you perform a search. Neat option, I've always thought.
The thing to do is submit your site, and wait for their spider, called Gulliver. You can find a list of Northernligh spiders, IP address, and user agent names here. [searchengineworld.com]
what other major SEs are also not covered by my Inktomi, Looksmart and DMOZ submissions?
None that I'm aware of. Excite powers Webcrawler, and obtains data from Looksmart. Directhit uses DMOZ data, and powers Ask, Lycos, and has featured results on many others. So it looks like yes, you have to submit to NL. Quite a grip they have on you through that submittal form, eh? :) And their market penetration, lol. ;)
Probably Fast:
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