Webmaster Forum / General / Search Engines / February 2004

I'm trying to get a handle on things right now. Where do these two SEs stand
right now?
I can see that they're businesses of Overture but what exactly does that mean?
I ask since I do very well on both SE's, All THE WEB and Altavista, heck, that

Still can't access AllTheWeb. Tried everything, but no good.
So full of curiosity, I telneted ATW on port 80. To my surprise, ATW
responded with "503 Service Unavailable".
Some of my fellow users of the same isp are denied access to ATW, too. I

Many of you in this NG will have seen my previous posts. We are a visible
SEO company and as such end up having to be careful with the clients we take
on.. We avoid certain kinds of sites- anything breaching copyrights and of a
sexual nature. For those of you who don't have the same ...

My site currently has a 2/10 measure of importance on the Google Toolbar.  I
have a .gif on my home page which, when clicked, leads to a site whose
Google measure of importance is 6/10. That site has a link to my home page.
Does the .gif on my home page act as a *reciprocal* link to ...

Can anyone shed any light on this one. I built a site for a
local company and within days of launch, it had a PR of 4.
Not too bad considering there were hardly any inbound links.
Suddenly, the PR has dropped to 1 and it seems to have totally

I have a quick question. when I go to dmoz and do a search for
my url, i see that my site is listed under a category.
But when i do a search in "directory" in google, my url does
not appear?

Attribute TITLE
title="[character string]" within <a href>
Example: <a href="company.html" title="russian translation company">
Attribute SUMMARY

"This is the Memecodes experiment.
Randomly created pages trying to spawn offspring...
by mating search engine users arriving upon them."
http://memecodes.outer-court.com

I am curious if anyone has experience as to the optimum file name length.  I
know on some operating systems it length ranges from 64 characters to 256.

in .htaccess is set a redirection a year ago:
Redirect permanent /index/bekfehler.html
http://www.domainxyz.de/index/bekfehler.shtml
Old file bekfehler.html is deleted, robots.txt allows full access to the

As I understand it Google regularly "crawls" the entire web and puts
one copy of every page it visits in its "cache". ...What exactly is
the point of this? What's to gain from having a cache -- isn't it just
an enormous waste of ...memory (I guess)?

Hi there...
Can anyone tell what a decent program is to check your website ranking in
the search engines? (Dutch search engines...)
Thanx...

What is it exactly?..
Thanks.

We don't ship to outside the United States. We PPC-market the site,
www.waterfallsandrocks.com, through AdWords and Overture. I think that, in
AdWords, we can restrict impressions to results generated in the U.S. (North
America?), but I don't understand how we can track clicks from ...

I'm pretty darned new to the SEO thing, even though I'm relatively
tech savvy, so I have a few questions and am curious if anybody has
any general suggestions on what I'm trying to accomplish.
First of all, the website I'm working with,