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Subject: Re: UKNM: Search Engines
From: Chris Locke
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:30:36 +0100

At 03:03 PM 9/30/98 +0100, you wrote:
>The best way to keep up with Search Engines would be to have:
>
>1. a couple of full time people studying the behaviour of Search
>Engines.

They are called 'Information Scientists' and tend to hang around Mailbase
lists if you really want them to tell you stuff for free.

>2. a clever piece of software that detects spiders and sends them to
>'spider friendly' pages while 'real' people are directed to 'real'
>pages.

Pretty much possible using simple bot commands

>3. these pages should be designed to achieve high scores on searches for
>specific key phrases.

&

>4. ideally, you should know the most common key phrases used to locate
>your products or services to increase traffic.

Called 'spamdexing'

Chris Locke
Group Internet Manager, Virgin Group
20 Soho Square, London, W1V 5FD
(0171) 479 4400 - phone (0171) 479 4453 - direct line
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chris [dot] lockeatvirgin [dot] co [dot] uk ICQ#6859303

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