Inktomi's Lost in the Past

inktomi is searching for sites over two years old

[spekiehl]

This forum is the closest to Inktomi as I'll get, but I never paid to get into Inktomi. I think I'm an early adopter or some wacked business like that. But anyway, my website has been running for about 3 years now, and it has morphed several times due to system crashes and network outages and system upgrades.

Well, the url list for my site is completely than it was 3 years ago. But Inktomi's Slurp suddenly decided it was going to request the 3 year old dead url about 500 times in the last couple days. I suspect this is partly because I had my site closed for repair up until last night, but these urls have not been used by anyone remotely in the last 2 years.

Is Inktomi storing really really really dated information or something? because those pages haven't existed for over two year, and I'm beginning to think I'll have to put some redirects in those dead locations so inktomi gets its act together and views the latest site.

[kevinpate]

I'm not certain using redirects will actually work, maybe if you put them up and leave them up forever.

I'm nearly convinced that slurpy was originally programmed by a love sick teen ... even though every letter is returned as addressee unknown and even though the phone goes unanswered time and again, slurpy repeatedly comes around and tries to tap at the window, hoping to serenade pages which haven't existed for many years.

[spekiehl]

Maybe I'll try a 301 error code on those urls and see if that works. I know those codes mean something to some bots, so maybe Inktomi will be smart enough to realize that the page moved.