Stephan Spencer's Scatterings

The Scattered Wisdom of a scientist turned web marketing virtuoso

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Google's index hits 8 billion pages. Yes folks, size does matter.

On Wednesday, the day before Microsoft unveiled the beta of Microsoft Search, Google announced that their index was now over eight billion pages strong. Impeccable timing from the Googleplex. Just a couple days later, and Microsoft could have proudly tou… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 11/14/2004 | Permalink

Comments (2)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines google, search_engines, spiders, spider_trap            

Spiders like Googlebot choke on Session IDs

Many ecommerce sites have session IDs or user IDs in the URL of their pages. This tends to cause either the pages to not get indexed by search engines like Google, or to cause the pages to get included many times over and over, clogging up the index with… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 06/25/2004 | Permalink

Comments (1)| Comments RSS | Filed under: General ecommerce sites, googlebot, pagerank, pagerank_dilution, seo, session id, spiders, spider_trap, urls