AV use different Data centres ?

.com, .ca, .co.uk, .de, .au, etc.

[caine]

Altavista, has many domains around the world, obviously, however do all of them pull from a central reservoir of pages, or do each one, or groups of them have seperate data feeds.

1. If i submit www.mydomain.com to AV.com, do i also need to submit to every other AV.??.
2. Is it neccessary to submit each and every page to all AV's if 1. is yes.
3. If some of the AV.?? are grouped, does anyone know which ones.

[heini]

Caine you might want to check out the following thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]
itīs still unclear if AV is merging all their dbs. For most of the regional AVs you get a redirect to the regular graphic submit at AV.com. No chance to submit to regional AVs directly.

[caine]

Heini

Interesting read.

Shall keep an eye on developments

Cheers

Caine

[oLeon]

There are differences:

try two searches, one in AV.com [altavista.com] (all languages), and one in AV.de [de.altavista.com] (Suchen in: Deutschland).
These are almost the same except of two (the listing is a bit different, but all pages appeare nearby compared the two resultpages): the 2nd from on AV.com -www.fadata.de- is not within the results on AV.de, though this page has been submitted with a paid express-submit.

The question why this pages is not in the german results has been answered by AV:
Express Inclusion submissions are added to AltaVista's global web index. AltaVista has not yet released a program providing rapid inclusion and frequent refresh for specific regional/country searches. AltaVista International sites provide radio buttons which allow end users to search either regional or worldwide content. URLs submitted through this
program are accessible when the worldwide option is chosen, in addition to all queries on www.AltaVista.com. infoSpider is not currently associated with any AltaVista program that provides inclusion for regional content to AltaVista regional international sites.