hey, I recently read that google has implemented a system that learns, to some approximate degree, how often a site is changed and then starts to reindex that site according to what it has learned. I don't know much more about it than that, but if this rumor is true, than the problem with them only indexing wikipedia once a month should go away in time. Someone could write and ask them about this.

me

Message: 7 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:35:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Axel Boldt axel@uni-paderborn.de To: wikipedial-l@nupedia.com Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Searching with Google Reply-To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com

Hi,

I think Tim's Google trick is really cool and until we have a better search engine ourselves, we should definitely put a search box like his on our home page.

The only downside is that Google indexes our site only once a month.

On my sites, I have in the past used http://htdig.org. The search results are just as fast and precise as google's, but you control when and what you index. A cron script once a night should be fine.

Axel