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Search Engine Quick Reference
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| Engine General Information |
Ask/Teoma | Lycos U.K. (T-Rex search engine) |
Fast Alltheweb & Lycos US | Direct Hit | AltaVista | Inktomi | |
| <title> character length used for listing |
94 | 83 | 61 | 147 | 79 | 79 | 111 |
| Keyword in title is important | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Character length used for description in listing | 147 | 144 | 390 | 257 | 181 | 148 | - |
| <meta> description supported | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| <meta> keyword supported | - | No | No | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| <meta>keyword important | - | No | No | ? | ? | No | ? |
| <meta> redirect problems? | - | Likely | Yes | Likely | Likely | Likely | Likely |
| <meta> robot tags support | - | NOINDEX NOFOLLOW |
NOINDEX NOFOLLOW |
NOINDEX | align=middle>NOINDEX | ||
| Indexes all visible text on page | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Searches are Case Sensitive | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Word Stemming (hawaii=hawaiian) | No (Teoma) | No | Yes | No | Heavy Tries to match words that are spelled similar or sound similar |
No | No |
| Word Capitalization (Is toy=Toy?) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Keyword Order (Is “paris hotels”=”hotels paris” |
No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes(?) | No |
| Plurals (Is toy=toys?) |
Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Looks for keywords in domain name (http://keyword-keyword.com) |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Looks for Keywords in URL’s (on page) | - | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Maybe |
| Pages score higher based on alphabetical order of domain name? |
No | No | No | No | No | - | No |
| Do newly submitted pages score better? |
- | No | Yes | No | - | No (older is better) |
No |
| Link Popularity | Yes | Yes (major influence) |
Yes | Yes | Click Popularity |
Yes | Direct Hit |
| Reviewed sites score higher? |
- | Yahoo / ODP Preference | - | - | - | - | - |
| Preference for big sites? (lots of pages) | Yes | Yes | - | No | No | Yes | No |
| Will the spider accept a cookie and use it while indexing your site? |
No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| “Click” popularity influences page score? | No | No | No | Yes | Future? | ||
| What text is indexed? (and can be found during a default search) |
Lycos U.K. (T-Rex search engine) |
Fast Alltheweb.com & Lycos US |
Direct Hit | AltaVista | Inktomi | |
| Words in <title> | 1129 characters | Yes | 1129 characters | Yes | 417 characters | Yes |
| Words in <style> | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Meta Keywords <meta name= keywords… |
No | No | No | ? | 1017+ characters |
1129 characters |
| Meta Description <meta name= description… |
No | No | No | ? | 1017 characters | 1129 characters |
| <no frames> Content | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Dublin Core Meta Data |
No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| <!– comment –> tag text |
No | No | - | No | No | |
| Hidden Input form text (Trick #14) |
- | No | - | No | No | |
| Form <option> text | Yes | N/A | Yes | No | N/A | No |
| Link Descriptions <a href=”www.your server.com”> keyword</a> |
Yes | Yes- | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| Text within url link <a href=”http://www .yourserver.com/ keyword.html> |
Yes | No | ? | Yes | - | No |
| Indexes .asp files | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Indexes pages with “?”,”=”,”&” in the URL? |
Yes | Yes | Yes | YES | Yes |
| Spidering (how deep will they go and how long does it take?) |
Lycos U.K. (T-Rex search engine) |
Fast Alltheweb.com & Lycos US |
Direct Hit | AltaVista | Inktomi | |
| How many different pages can you get indexed? | No Limit? | No Limit | No Limit? | 400 | No Limit | |
| Submitted Pages | 1-2 months | Varies – Months | Around 15 -30 days | 2+ Months | 2-30 days | 48 hours to three weeks |
| 1 level deep | Monthly-Excellent | 1 month | Excellent | Poor | 2-4 weeks | 2-4 weeks |
| Multiple levels deep | Yes! – Excellent | Poor | Excellent | Poor | Poor | Poor |
| Supports Robots.txt | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Supports <meta> robot tag | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |
| Frames Support (noframes tag) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Follows Frameset links | Yes | - | - | Grabber follows href links. Grabber also follows framed pages to index the content of pages containing frames, but does not create separate index entries for individual frames. |
No | Yes – Will index content of framed page and list URL of frameset |
| Follows Image Map Links | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Penalties | Lycos U.K. (T-Rex search engine) |
Fast Alltheweb.com & Lycos US |
Direct Hit | AltaVista | Inktomi | |
| # of pages you can submit per day without a penalty |
10? Submit home page and let spider find other pages on it’s own |
No Limits | 50 | ? | 1000 per AltaVista but we recommed going slow. |
Careful, Free Submit Has Penalty |
| Submitting too fast | No | No | No | ? | Yes | No |
| Hidden Text | Yes | None | Maybe | ? | Yes if reviewed by humans | None |
| Repetition of words in title | Maybe | No | No | ? | Yes | Maybe |
| Repetition of words in <meta>description | No | No | No | ? | Yes | No |
| Repetition of words in body text | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Maybe |
| Small Sites (less than 5 pages) | No | - | No | - | No | No |
| Links on home page to offsite urls | No | - | No | No | - | - |
| No Links to your page from other sites | Yes | Yes | No | No | Maybe | align=middle>Yes |
