I decided to do a little test of a few of the search engines to see what was returned from my website. Now everyone knows that Google is king of the hill right now, right? hmmm.... my search was "mustang site:mjonesweb.com" (without the quotes of course).
Google - 0 results returned (and yes, it has indexed my site)
MSN - 1 result returned
Altavista - 2 results returned (the correct answer)
Lycos - 2 results returned, after scrolling through MANY paid results
Yahoo - 2 results returned
AllTheWeb - 2 results returned
This kind of surprised me, especially since Google just started touting that it has doubled the size of it's index to over 8 billion web pages. The "My Cars" page existed at the time that Google first indexed my site, so why doesn't it have it in it's index? Google is supposed to be the best at relevance. It has my home page in it's index (search on alienware site:mjonesweb.com and it shows up), but it doesn't return it when you search on the word car. The word car IS on that first page. This is definitely an indicator that you just might be missing the boat if you limit yourself to just ONE search engine.
In all fairness, my blog does PING Yahoo every time I update it.
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