Fast Algo

alltheweb algo, update, crawl....

[Sathish]

hi everyone here,
i am a new to this forum this place's got pretty usefull stuff thankz to WMW.

can any one please what is the exact algo does fast/alltheweb uses. and also how often fast updates, and also something about crawling.

thank you very much

[Brett_Tabke]

I have to admit, I got a chuckle out of your post the first time I read it. I was hoping someone had a good Zinger to come back at you with Sathish.

Welcome to the board.

Actual algo's are the best kept secrets in search engines today. Those that know them, keep them very close to their vest.

Submitted on the 3rd - searchable now. Walked the entire new site. They will be back to it in about 35-45 days. They will "tea sip" some pages from now until the next full crawl.

[Alecto]

Hi Sathish

Fast stands for this:

Crawl Fast
Update Fast

Sometimes it seems Fast is on our site every other day. The algo is a mystery. But I can tell you this much. Last week the Fast/Lycos combination was giving us less than 1% of our referrals. It's been steadily building, and sat at about 4% yesterday. Why? Do click throughs have any effect? I've also noticed that some of our pages are ranking higher than they were several weeks ago.

I have given up on figuring out Fast's algo. Their results have been just too scattered. IMO they have to figure out a better way to deliver results. My strategy became this - Optimize for Google, but let Fast optimize for us. Hopefully, that's what they're doing now.

[Sathish]

thankz brett and alecto. i've been waiting for some one to reply for this post.

fast uses a bit linkpop algo is this correct?.

other than bit linkpop algo what does fast look for?,

becoz i got #7 for keyword in fast which i am #1 in google.

how could i push this ranking up in fast?. the page optimized specially for google with Quality links.

thank you

[Son_House]

Hi Sathish,

Changing pages that already rank very well is not always a good idea. You say the page ranks #1 on Google and #7 on Fast, well you should be very happy with that and leave that page just the way it is. Any changes you make to that page could have the opposite affect you wanted.

Here is a great piece of advice, "Thou Shalt Not Resubmit a page that is ranking in the Top 20" by rcjordan

More great advice in the Thou Shalt NOT... [webmasterworld.com]thread.

[Jill]

Along this line... how do you find what pages/sites you have listed in Fast?

[Woz]

Jill,

go to the fast site and choose advanced search.

Then in the middle section you will see three fields with dropdowns.

Enter your site url without httm://www and set the dropdowns to "must include" and "in url".

Set the number of replies to 100, down the bottom of the form, and press search.

Voila!

Onya
Woz

[Alecto]

Woz

I tried that search on Fast to see how many pages from our site we had indexed. Fast came back with 242 pages. Now, that's what I call an advanced search, considering at this time we have less than 190 pages on our entire site!

I was momentarily baffled, until I went through some of the results and noticed duplicate pages from our site showing up in the following fashion:

'http://www.ourname.com/secondary.htm'
'http://ourname.com/secondary.htm'

I don't know if that will help or hurt the rankings, but I'd prefer if it wasn't happening at all.

Anybody else notice this on their sites?

[Brett_Tabke]

Make this all one line:

www.ussc.alltheweb.com/cgi-
bin/advsearch?terms=3&type=any&query=&exec=FAST+Search&lang=any&enco=iso-8859-
1&A1=%2B&B1=URL&C1=link.all%3A&A2=-&B2=URL&C2=url.all%3A&A3=-
&B3=&C3=&dincl=&dexcl=&hits=10

That's not handy, but I thought some scripters might use it. In place of two "URL" spots, put your domain.

[Jill]

Thanks for the information!

[Brett_Tabke]

I think you can also do the same from Lyco's?

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