submitting to Fast?

at the conference rep said two weeks, submit to live

[jeremy goodrich]

And two weeks to this day I submitted a few pages into Fast, via alltheweb.com.

Still no sign of their spider, so I'm beginning to believe that was market speak. And to think I was very, very impressed with how their rep came across in the meet the engines session on the first day. He was, in my opinion, the most focused on search technology, instead of pitching them as a business.

The conference I'm referring to was Search engine strategies 2001, and I'm wondering if perhaps I'm confused: should I have submitted to Lycos? Or will the spider show up today, index my pages, and put them into the db within 24 hours?

That would be pretty incredible, I must say. I'm curious as to others recent experiences with them, and how "fast" they are at adding new content, or updating old.

Cheers,

Jeremy, the artist formerly known as Han Solo
( i think we all know who I am now, yes?) :)

[Brett_Tabke]

Yes. ;-)

I've been slowly submitting a set of long forgotten sites over the last month (one a day), and they are all showing in the db now. Honestly, I didn't keep track on these when I submitted them. I know others have say 12 to 18 days turn around time. I think it is reasonable.

[Robert Charlton]

Look at this thread. [webmasterworld.com] My notes indicated that it took a month.

[jeremy goodrich]

That was what my research indicated, but that was over six months ago.

I was thinking, between the SES conference, and some of the info here, I would check to see what the current status is.

I've been watching the logs, but yet to see anything except the usual crawls.

Thanks for the pointer, RC. Much appreciated.

Jeremy