Re: [Summary-Talk] Google search engine totals

[newsie <newsie@xxxxxxxxx>]

You're right that the posssibility of using wildcards to detect the 
myriad of international Google search engines could result in some false 
detections; I thought about that.  On the upside, any false Google 
engine detected in this way would probably not be linking to our site. 
But there's always an exception just waiting around the corner, isn't 
there!

Kevin
webmaster at lnxw dot com



Jason Linhart wrote:

> On 10/21/03 12:21 AM newsie (newsie@priss.org) wrote:
> 
> 
>>Maybe there's a way you can use wildcards so that future Google site 
>>releases will be automatically detected if they keep the same URL format.
> 
> 
> There is certainly a way to do that, but I am not sure that it is correct 
> to do so. Should any site with "google" anywhere in it's name be 
> automatically added to the Google total? I would rather verify them by 
> hand. It is a judgment call, there doesn't seem to be any absolute 
> answer. This only affects the Known Search Engines report. Any new 
> alternate name for Google will still be detected as a search engine, will 
> still have it's phrases reported on.
> 
> Jason
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