[SGVLUG] Fun of running a Website.

[Jeremy Leader]

on 08/16/2006 02:48 PM Emerson, Tom  wrote:
> Msn, yahoo, google, and others will generally be grabbing/caching pages
> for their search engines -- this is "a good thing" (right, Chris?)
> unless there is a loop (and even if there was) these spiders shouldn't
> be consuming huge amounts of bandwidth as they should hit each page and
> move on.  I don't think they bother with images (well, save for google
> for their google images search page -- do the others do the same now?)

Yes, other search engines do image search: http://images.search.yahoo.com/, as 
well as http://video.search.yahoo.com/, http://audio.search.yahoo.com/, and if 
you're into free-as-in-speech, http://search.yahoo.com/cc?fr=srch_more (search 
for stuff that has a Creative Commons license).

-- 
Jeremy Leader
jleader at alumni.caltech.edu
leaderj at yahoo-inc.com (work)