Does Goo get you in to Inktomi?

[Go_Madrid]

I've been told that submitting to the Japanese search engine, Goo, will get you into Inktomi as well. Is that correct?

[coconutz]

I've had luck using Goo.

[korkus2000]

It has always worked for me.

[jeremy goodrich]

These days, INK has a much bigger database, so odds are if you are linked to from Yahoo, DMOZ, and higher linked up vortals / directories, you will get into INK that way, too.

[mayor]

Anyone have luck getting into Inktomi via Goo for a brand new site?

How long have people been waiting after Goo submission to be listed in the MSN serps?

[BrendanR]

If the page translated correctly, I believe it takes four weeks. :)

~ Brendan.

[KevinC]

well bare with me cause I am very new to this but after reading this thread I looked up goo and went ahead and submited my url. Today in my log files I saw this:

Mozilla/3.0 (Slurp.so/Goo; [e-mail]; [inktomi.com...]

It looks like the inktomi sprider came on by but it has that "goo" stuck in there.

If this is from goo that is damn good turn around in less than 24hrs I has spidered.

But now the question is how long until I show up in the search results?

[coconutz]

We've seen some of our pages included within a week of being spidered.

[bill]

Goo submission is not a guarantee of getting into Inktomi quick. I've had some sites that have been in Goo for close to 6 months before showing up in the Inktomi results. By that time I can't be sure it was the Goo submission or other promotion efforts that did the trick. Goo will spider you quick and you will make it into the Goo engine in about a month's time, but I wouldn't guarantee when you'll get into Inktomi proper.

[egomaniac]

What's the best submission approach with Goo?

-Submit only the root domain url?

OR

-Submit every page url that you want indexed?

[bill]

Goo will generally spider every page you submit within a day or so. Eventually they will look at other links on their own. I tend to submit all the pages I want indexed. Spidering is one thing they are very good at. Getting into the Goo index can still take up to 8 weeks in some cases.

[redzone]

Goo may have previously been a doorway into other Inktomi indexes, but we have experienced indexing only in "Goo", from direct Goo submissions over the past several weeks. English content.

In the interim, Inktomi's US crawlers have increased activity, and are now crawling and indexing.

[bill]

I'm with you there redzone :) I probably should have clarified that I'm submitting Japanese content that I want to get into the Goo index...I'm not trying to use this as Inktomi's backdoor ;)

That said, I've got a lot of Japanese stuff that's been in Goo for months that has never made it over to Inktomi proper. I think it's been generally accepted for a few months now that the Goo door to Inktomi is now closed.