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To: RTev who wrote (11709)	9/1/1999 3:07:00 PM
From: levy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

Rtev, thanks for your response. What about the issue of which search engines metacrawler uses....are these arrangement with the ones they have fixed in stone or could a search engine say sorry you can't search us anymore unless such and such. And for instance metacrawler does not search google and some others? why not? I am now pretty sure there is more to it then eyeballs as the reason gnet bought dogpile....I bet they have some technology or agreements gnet wanted.

To: RTev who wrote (11709)	9/1/1999 4:28:00 PM
From: White Shoes	Respond to of 28311

It's a mug's game. Seems like they're doing their best, and the results are fine. Monkeying with titles can help, but Hypermart has the advantage of being promoted within a major network. And as I mentioned, it's #1 on Google. So what is the problem? Check the title fields on major sites - some of them are very brief and it doesn't seem to matter one bit. A metacrawler result is nice, but leading web companies aren't wringing their hands about the metacrawler results. It's only one piece of the puzzle.