I thought question marks were out ?

[rcjordan]

found a referral from hotbot.lycos for the term 'longitude of tewksbury,ma [hotbot.lycos.com] Take a look a #10 (StateGuide, in case it moves). This is a dynamic page that has been indexed by INK? Actually, it is a frame that is created dynamically. I thought '?' was out, and certainly a '?' in a frame. I'm definitely bewildered by this one.

[littleman]

Inktomi is ok with them. They are the only ones who are to my knowledge.

[rcjordan]

thanks, LM. maybe you need to fire off a quick update to ClickZ, here's a topical excerpt from yesterday's article

Currently, to my knowledge, none of the robot search engines plan to provide a solution for registering dynamic pages - it just doesn't seem to be an option.

-Registering Dynamic Sites [clickz.com]

[littleman]

I wonder if he calls himself a Guru?

I like his definition of cloaking...
"Cloaking or IP delivery is a more sophisticated version of redirect."

[redzone]

Bruemmer is a "hold-over" from the good 'ole days at Infoseek. He built WebIgnite from it, and couldn't keep up with technology changes.

He basically just re-hashes everyone else's info. at ClickZ, and rubs elbows in the gold old boy network. I knew he moved into opt in email a couple of years ago, and haven't run across "ANY" clients utilizing his web optimization services. Of course, we may run in different circles? :)

I complained to Anne Handley several times, and publicly humiliated him in when ClickZ had a forum...

[rcjordan]

>complained to Anne Handley several times
RZ, go to the ClickZ editors roster [clickz.com], scan down the page about halfway... see any names that look like a match?

>Guru
LM, unless they read the 'Thou Shalt Not' thread, they wilt not get it.

[mark roach]

Lycos UK also indexes and even crawls URLs with question marks in them. AV certainly used to index a URL if you submitted it directly.

[redzone]

RC,
Nice catch, never bothered to go there. I usually have to go do something outside in the "fresh air", after I regurgitate one of Bruemmer's articles.... :)

At least he knows how to do something right?