search.netscape.com

where does it get its data?

[bobriggs]

Every once in a while I get a referral from search.netscape.com, under 'reviewed web sites' - after the goto 'partner' listings. These are obviously ODP site listings. But the keywords searched on are not in my ODP title, description, or the ODP url. The keywords are, however, on the page listed.

I've never seen any kind of spider from Netscape. I have two guesses: 1) AOL, 2) Inktomi.

Anybody know?

[jeremy goodrich]

Hmm...I just had a look, and I believe it is the odp. For the search I did, the results are about the same as when I search on "keyword" at aol.com, and the same as that which I find in ODP.

If the description doesn't match your odp listing, though I'm afraid I'll have to confess my ignorance. Perhaps another person with more netscape experience could fill us both in on this kind of situation?

[bobriggs]

Yes, the results are obviously odp - 'show me more like this' will go to the category.

Here's an example:

grain fed catfish [search.netscape.com]

Only the third result contains this in the description (or anywhere else for that matter)

So really it's a much improved search over the dmoz.org search - because dmoz only has the title and description - and it also seems to ignore the category url.

And the results seem to be ala AOL a few months ago when the ink listings disappeared.

[angiolo]

<And the results seem to be ala AOL a few months ago when the ink listings disappeared.
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You are right.
And there are duplicate listings too. It seems that sites with more listings on DMOZ are listed twice but with the same title and description, no matter if they have different description or title in the two DMOZ listings.

There are some editor choices that sometimes have nothing to do with the searched terms: maybe it is something a la GoTo (pay per click)

[backus]

I think Netscape will take the keywords from your Meta tags, even though you won't see them in your ODP description.

[ArturX]

Where did you get this inofmation, Backus? Netscape has no robot to do it, as for I know. Netscape is not very interested in its search engine and I think they are happy with ODP.

But the truth is, that Netscape Search has some results with no relation to search phrase - no keywords in title, description, URL, category URL, nor even in Jim's metatags ;) and they are not editor's choice;

I went through these "spooky" results and found out that most of them contain the search phrase in html code and are indexed by google (and are listed in ODP obviously).

ArturX

[AreebaGuy]

I'm fairly sure it gets its results entirely from the ODP. I get no results from Netscape unless my site is in the ODP and the keyword results mimic the results I get from dmoz searches.