[WikiEN-l] Google indexes quickly!

[Neil Harris]

Mathias Schindler wrote:
> Steve Bennett wrote:
>
>   
>> That's impressive - you add a link to a disambig page, and less than 3
>> hours later you're the number one hit on Google.
>>
>> What's the lesson here?
>>     
>
> Version 1: Luck.
>
> Version 2: Google Sitemaps support for Mediawiki on Wikipedia.org is 
> working fine.
>
> Version 3: Brion has launched a secret google agreement during his visit 
> in Mountain View.
>
>   

Version 4: Google has added special-case code to their crawler engine 
that scan, say, Recent Changes, and spiders new material in near-real-time.

-- Neil