Re: Looking at were we are...

Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Fri, 21 May 1999 16:48:37 -0500 (CDT)

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# >7. Search engines are not linked into the FAQs automatically and require
# > the authors to do much of that themselves.
# >
# > I'll be quite honest with everyone. I have been part of the problem
# > when it comes to becoming engrained into the search engines. I have
# > had the opportunity to do so but there was no way for me to pay for a
# > dedicated T3 and the systems to make it happen. I talked with a couple
# > different people at search engines that would have liked to put the
# > FAQs up as a searchable resource (an still do). Unless there was some
# > way to fund that link it just wasn't going to happen. And I just couldn't
# > convince the search engines to foot the bill... At the time advertising
# > was an absolute no-no on www.faqs.org due to author wishes which I honored.
# > That sort of tied my hands. There was no way to do it for some and not for
# > others... The reality is that we need to get in a situation where we are
# > directly tied to the search engines so our material does come up near the
# > very top of the search results.
#
# How about doing a mirror of www.faqs.org at the search engines? This
# would certainly solve the bandwidth problem, and off the top of my head,
# there shouldn't be any licensing problems. I don't think you'd want to
# make it exclusive to any one engine of course, but unless I'm missing
# something, mirrors could be a solution to this problem.

There is a problem with this approach. Normally www.faqs.org is completely
rebuilt daily. This is done to assure that FAQs.org matches what is on
rtfm.mit.edu's site. It was the easy way out. ;) This complicates mirroring
as most sites don't want a complete fresh copy each day.. I've considered
redoing how/when FAQs are rebuilt, but to date I have not acted on it. (Real
work got in the way.)

I've discussed mirroring with one of the sites and it never went anywhere.
I'll propose it again and see what kind of response I get.

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