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Does this mean that Yahoo may not use INK here in the future?
I am pretty sure that Yahoo is not going to use Ink in its current form. Had they intended to they would have deployed it long ago and stopped payng Google for search results.
Yahoo owns, in addition to Ink, AV and AllTheWeb. Each of the three has strengths and weaknesses. I am sure that Yahoo is currently working of merging them into a single engine that they will use.
I think this next year is going to be quite interesting as far as the SE goes
{i]Every{/i] year is interesting in the SEworld!
Every year is interesting in the SEworld!
I refer to it as the 6 month cycle. Every six months (or so) there is a major upheaval in SE.
Just when you get all relaxed with the status quo something earthshaking happens. For me it started with the AltaVista episode back in the late 90's and continues today.
interesting, anyone else getting yahooseeker got inktomi being reported as the reverse DNS on this bot?
e.g.
Reverse DNS (*****).inktomisearch.com
From / Via Inktomi-Blk-3
Origin Location California, USA.
Browser Tag YahooSeeker/1.0 (*****)
I know that Yahoo and Ink were in negotiations in the past, anyone got an insight, or is this just weird stuff you USians like to throw at us Antipodeans occasionally to confuse us <grin>?
Cheers and hooroo
JP
P.S. <adds> should have read the rest of the thread properly. Yahoo owns INk, so they can use what reverse DNS they like! :#-} </adds>
It looks to me like it's using a list of urls in Google as a basis for crawling.
It looks like it's now following links on its own, and crawling stuff that's not in Google or Ink. :)
