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It looks to me like its ESpotting with Inktomi backfill.
I am amazed that Espotting is encouraging/allowing this kind of work. It is one thing to set up a "search engine" site and get SEO traffic as one form of promotion, it is entirely different to build it just for SEO traffic.
And isn't this just going to be competing with Search Demon, Holiday Demon and Finance Demon in the listings?
they all do quite well ( check alexa for them traffic is quite high )
many have over 50,000 pages in the index
the problem is as more and more come on stream suspect google will squash them all which would be a shame
Either Espotting needs to stop this, or Google should drop one of them to send a clear message.
IHMO, it's all about the engine sussing out people's surfing habbits and being able to deliver results in a timely manner and on a consistent basis. There is nothing worse that going to an engine and finding it broken, slow and out of date. Most of the sites that do well these days address those very issues.
There seems to be quite a few sites out there that partner with companies that privide search feed. Sites like shopping.net, Searchdemon.co.uk, Toxiclemon.co.uk onebigworld.co.uk and redhotchilli.co.uk etc all use a combination of different providers. As far as I'm concerned, these are all UK sites which can only be a good thing for the Internet industry here, and we should be encouraging them by listing our sites there. It's only a matter of time before these sites start developing their own bots (like Mirago have done) and that's exactly how innovative companies grow and develop. After all Yahoo has been growing on the back of Google for the last couple of years and the same is true with MSN and Inktomi.
I can't see some poor guy creating all those subdomains by hand but maybe there is a small army doing it?
But all these sites have one thing in common and that is search results by espotting, I do not want to list my sites on espotting and have the money clicked away by this network of sites which have been manufactured for the sole purpose of sucking money from advertisers pockets.
That is the bottom line in the construction of these sites, there's one on a UK search list which has that many domain names pointing to the index page I bet Nominet has trouble keeping up with the domain name registrations.
You do a search at google for a phrase which has nothing to do with the search result and bingo up pops a serp which redirects you to, Yes you guessed it, another espotting search results site.
And your trying to tell me this is the way forward, I don't think so.
It was only over the Christmas holidays that TL was removed from google, or so called removed who knows, but all of the pages disappeared and then returned, if google are on to this problem of espotting search result sites dominating serps they would of been removed totally by now but alas they are still there
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This is very different to ten straight Espotting adverts.
[edited by: IanTurner at 10:00 pm (utc) on Jan. 14, 2004]
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I take it from the edit that you may have opverstepped the mark or said something a little to close to the bone - don't worry it happens to the best of us - I should know ;)
Good point about the maximum number of pages at any one time being entered - I would have thought this is the easiest way to stop the proliferation of sites within the Google SERPS. What do you think GG?
I also do not have a problem with Google and other search engines ensuring that there are no more than 25,000 pages from any one site - sub-domains included. This would ensure that affiliates can still earn well (as often they do provide a good service and some accurate results) but no one party can dominate the rankings.
In total, worldwide, there can only be a handful of sites that have more than about 20,000 pages that are truely unique e.g. BBC, CNN, Discover channel etc - and Google could simply implement a flag system that once a certain number of pages are listed within their SERPS - they hand-review the site to check whether they should allow any more.
This would certainly curb the actions of some and in one foul swoop make the SERPS a little more open to geniune sites.
