Search service abuse

[Traugott Koch NetLab <traugott _at__ munin.ub2.lu.se>]

To: Lycos, WebCrawler and other search services:

You should exclude companies and others, which systematically abuse search
engines, by filling a whole page, especially constructed for the harvesting robot,
with the same words. (This page disappears almost immediately because of
Netscape Refresh).

Latest example (from Lycos, search for  search. engines):

) Access the Best Search Engines From One Page: LeGrice
Commercial Real Estate M

Ranking: 1.0000, 2 of 2 terms, adj 1.0
Links to outside Resources: 1  

Words matched in page: engines

Abstract: Click Here To Continue... search engines, search engines, search engines,
search engines, search engines, search engines, search engines, search engines, search
engines, search engines, search engines, search engines, search engines, search
engines, search engines, search engines, search engines, search engines, search e...
search engines, search engines, search engines, search engines, search engines, search
engines, search engines, search engines 
http://www.legrice.com/12.htm (4k) 23-Jan-96 



2) Access the Best Search Engines From One Page: LeGrice
Commercial Real Estate M

Ranking: 0.8664, 2 of 2 terms, adj 1.0
Links to outside Resources: 1  

Words matched in page: engines

Abstract: Click Here To Continue... search engine, search engine, search engine, search
engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, search
engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, search
engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, search
engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, searc... search engine,
search engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, search engine, search engine,
search engine 
http://www.legrice.com/7.htm (4k) 23-Jan-96 


from WebCrawler:
WebCrawler Search Results

The query "search engines" found 10941 documents and returned 25:

**100 Access the Best Search Engines From One Page: LeGrice Commercial Real Estate
Markham. Where th...
073 http://www.millcomm.com/%7Edscsecty/search.html
062 myhumblehouse
...

The same company abuses many other search services in the same way and with
the same specially prepared page.

Best regards,
Traugott Koch
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