> http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/products.htm
>
> This is really a GREAT "search engine"--WebFerretPRO. It's so much
> better than Yahoo. You don't have to submit an URL to the Ferret folk,
> to get a site listed with them.
Yahoo has very few "holdings", as librarians call them. I may find
25 entries on Yahoo, and 25,000, or even 250,000 on AltaVista. Based on
that, I would say Yahoo is just not a good place to find anything. I
think AltaVista has the highest holdings of all the search engines.
And, um... I did check. In fact, the page counts on my web reports,
http://www.mall-net.com/se_report/ , are based on AltaVista because they
were the highest in almost all keywords for the engines we polled. As
soon as I get the next modifications in, I will be listing the number of
pages various of the search engines have in their holdings for the more
popular keywords. (Yes, I know I am lazy.)
> I tried listing with Yahoo several months ago. I've tried several
> times. But they will not list the site I submitted. I'm really
They can be slow. But my clients and I get a lot of hits from them
in some categories.
> disappointed in Yahoo, because I thought they would represent all the
> sites. They will list some not-so-nice sites, but others they will not
> list. I really have lost a lot of respect for Yahoo.
Same here. I was stunned by the numbers! I had to verify a number
of them manually, because I just could not believe the counts were so low!
> Anyway, this Ferret service is really great--and it's freeware.
Runs on your machine to poll the engines. I've written a fair bit of
software to do that kind of stuff myself...
The problem with the search engines is not the availability of
pages... If anyone wants to start a search engine company, do let me
know, I have some ideas, and a prototype I could dust off and show you. I
would have started a search engine company myself, and I am sure it would
knock the socks off most users. (The prototype certainly did -- it gave
them meaningful information, not a bunch of crappy web pages.) But... you
know how it is, connectivity isn't cheap, and I am not an expert at
dealing with vulture capitalists...
Just another forgotten idea from the guy who invented the URL and the
first web type browser in 1982. Anyone want to byte on this one?
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