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From: ian singer <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] We need more exposure
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 21:25:43 -0800
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Elsi wrote:

> Ian, SeachThingy isn't really set up to be used as a website search engine.
> There's no way to constrain the hits to only those pages at your own
> website. It *is* a great way for folks to find any and all pages at
> RootsWeb with certain keywords (surnames, localities, etc.).
>
> It takes a long time for SearchThingy to re-spider a website. (That's
> because there are just so many websites!) Maybe as much as 6 months. So,
> for sites that are changing quickly, it will take a long time before the
> search index is updated.

The global search or Rootsweb is great and no problem at all. For
example searching on my last lame I get a lot of hits and if I wanted I
could then message them all and ask if they knew Rootsweb has a Singer
mailing list?

^ months to me sounds totally unreasonable. If Yahoo or AltaVista or
others can routinely spider the whole net on a regular basis why should
your spider be so sleepy?

PS. did you know you are set up so replies go to you and not the list?

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