INK Not So Dead?

I'm getting a real deep crawl...

[Grumpus]

Just wanted to let folks know... For about the past 36-48 hours INK has been crawling, and deep, at my site. I have about two dozen pages normally in the index for free. It often crawls as many as 50 different pages when it comes by, but for the past few days, it's been coming in 30-40 page bursts and returning later and grabbing more. Maybe 500 pages so far.

G.

[thejenn]

Makes sense.

The word is that Ink is working overtime to expand the size of their index. That likely means that the spiders will be out full force in the next few months and that all the people that avoid PFI but are well linked to, will find the number of pages they have in the index skyrocketing.

[mayor]

Thanks for the report, Jenn.

That means further dilution of the PFI pages, I guess.

Hopefully Ink will be lapping up a couple new pages I've put on the web to feed Slurp's new appetite and try to make up for the severe beating I took on the PFI front.

[thejenn]

Look at the bright side. If you see enough of your non-PFI pages finding their way in, you can drop you renewal on the PFI program and watch the pages you used to pay for get picked for for free.

I almost never pay for any page outside of the index, and that's mostly to get an instant presence while I wait for the spider to come on his own. Would be nice if they would become more Google like and I could stop paying them. What a total reversal! From paid to free! A seach engine! No way! :)

[nell]

The INK spiders are insatiably hungry.

We keep substituting our PFI page URL's every 48 hrs. and INK still keeps the old ones in the index. Even our free Goo submissions take only a week or so to appear.

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[toolman]

Have you really looked at INK results lately? They are better than Google. Crawl on slurp.

[korkus2000]

I have to say ink's results are looking better and better every update. They went from giving me 1 unique a day 3 months ago to 45 today. I have been quite impressed with their turn around. They seem to be updating quite frequently. I hope they can find more portals to get the user base google has. IMHO would give google a run for its money. INK gives me better traffic than fast.

[nipear]

I have to agree I've been very impressed with the INK results lately, very google like. MSN is now on Yahoo's heels in referals to me. I think the key is getting a lot of pages indexed and then showing up on 3 and 4 kw searches not covered by LS. I was nowhere in INK until 2 months ago. Now I have 2000 pages indexed. And I'm hoping it will add a few of our new sites soon.

If INK can get monthly updates they might give google some real comp. for Yahoo. But with google's constant updating they are just 1 step behind....

[Robert Charlton]

>>Have you really looked at INK results lately? They are better than Google.<<

Inktomi has been sending a large site I take care of a lot of traffic for terms that are too deep in the site to have enough PageRank to do well on Google. The phrases do have to be long enough that they're not in LookSmart, but fortunately that is how I optimized the site... the target phrases that are deeper tend to be longer and more specific. I too think the Inktomi results are pretty damned good... and MSN would be a lot better if LS weren't in the way.

>>But with google's constant updating they are just 1 step behind....<<

Right now, I'm seeing some results on Inktomi that are fresher than on Google... but I'm also astonished at how fresh some other results on Google are that don't show up in Intomi at all. It would be great to have a two-horse race.

[rfgdxm1]

>I too think the Inktomi results are pretty damned good... and MSN would be a lot better if LS weren't in the way.

From the searches I see using the Inktomi Pure Search, they are quite relevant. The problem is Inktomi needs another major partner besides MSN. Inktomi seems to me Google's potential biggest challenger.