On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:13:07AM -0700, Evan Martin wrote:
I think the best solution for vandalism is to set up a system that allows pages to be marked as needing expedited recrawling. This wouldn't be for every updated page -- just those that someone with sufficient access (an admin?) had explicitly marked. (It'd be best if this information were *not* pushed directly to Google, because ideally every search engine would be able to make use of it.)
I concur that it would be useful if everyone could make use of it, but, given the target problem, if it *wasn't* pushed to the engines, I don't see how it would be useful... unless you pinged it every 15 minutes or so. And of course, there is a potential for abuse, no matter how it's implemented. Balancing the attendant risks is the underlying problem, as it always is.
Good to know you're here, though, Evan; we promise not to assume you actually work at Google or anything. :-)
Cheers, -- jra