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Our Experience So Far!

We recommend Alta Vista as the best internet search engine, in our experience. If you haven't used it, we suggest you try it at:
altavista.com

Like most new users, at first I did not know one search engine from another. They nearly all work in slightly different ways, using different logic and syntax. Over a period of time, I noticed that I had started to use Alta Vista as my first choice. At that stage, I could not have explained why apart from being able to use a + or - sign to include or exclude a particular word. Having now been submitting our site to most of the above search engines for some time, my preference has sharpened.
There are two sides to using a search engine.
One is searching for information it contains, the other is getting it to accept information such as new pages or sites.
Most people's experience is from a user or consumer viewpoint, and if this isn't satisfactory, then the search engine will eventually be discarded in favour of a better one. However, if the search engine does not accept submissions of new data, then its index will eventually become stale or obsolete, and it will be worse than useless, because the consumer may not realise that its information is stale, and that he is being denied access to fresher information.


Our Experience as a Contributor

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When we add a new page to our site, we usually add it to AV immediately, and it appears in their index within a few days. Their "Add URL" page claims "Please submit only one URL. Our crawler, Scooter, will eventually explore your entire site by following links.", but this does not seem to work, at least in our experience. After 6 months with our old site, only about 5 pages were listed, all of which we added separately. Searching for "24carat.co.uk" finds over 200 of the pages we have submitted so far.

We would be delighted to hear from Search Engines, Users, and Authors.

All comments welcome!


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