Google Beats All On Indexing Time

When it comes to freshness of sites and indexing time, it appears to me that Google is the hands down winner – Especially when it comes to spidering deep links.

About 3 days ago I added another trap word to NoSlang.com, my Internet slang dictionary. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, a “trap word” is simply a word that doesn’t exist but is added to a dictionary for the sole purpose of seeing if anybody is copying your material. I’ve got about 5 or 6 in the whole dictionary, and they’ve been very useful for spotting copycats.

I always hate being that asshole, but I’ve actually had 2 or 3 sites shut down at the web host level after their owners repeatedly ignored my requests to stop copying my shit.

After 3 days of having this word up there (on a page about 3 clicks deep) I can say that only Google shows results for the search term. This particular word is istwfn – an abbrevation for “I stole this word from noslang.com.”

Check it out: Google shows results. Yahoo, Ask, Live, A9, and even Altavista don’t show anything yet.

Note: these searches will probably all soon show this post due to it’s regularly fast indexing, but they still don’t show the noslang.com page.

I know Google’s had some recent criticism lately about freshness, but it looks like they’re on the right track.

2 comments September 14th, 2007