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Search Engines
By Meta Brown

I notice that a search for "player piano" in Yahoo does not lead me to
MMD.  Has anyone ever tried to notify the search engines of our
existence?  If not, I volunteer to do so.

Meta Brown
Senior Consultant
SPSS Quality
SPSS Inc.

 [ Alta Vista logged the MMD Archives earlier this year, and we seem to
 [ have excellent coverage there.  Jody plans to overhaul the appear-
 [ ance of our site first, and then he will send "submit" information
 [ to the search engines.  Incidentally, a high percentage of our new
 [ subscribers discovered MMD via sites like Alta Vista.  Thanks, Meta,
 [ for your offer to help.  -- Robbie
 [
 [ The MMD's Website has a name that sort-of breaks the standard
 [ tradition of Website names.  The MMD Website is hosted on a computer
 [ who's name is: "mmd.foxtail.com"   The technical reason for this is
 [ so that the MMD's Website can be different from the Website for
 [ my business.  At one time its was possible to access the MMD
 [ Website using "www.foxtail.com" even though it was not intended
 [ to work that way.  Regrettably several of the search engines
 [ cataloged the MMD site incorrectly using "www.foxtail.com" instead
 [ of "mmd.foxtail.com".  The technical error that allowed the
 [ MMD Website to be viewed via "www.foxtail.com" has been corrected
 [ (for months), but the search engines are very slow to catch
 [ up on the name change.  What some of them have done is to discover
 [ that the "www.foxtail.com" links don't work anymore, so they
 [ are removing those links from their databases.  The new links
 [ (via mmd.foxtail.com) haven't been found by all of the Websites
 [ yet.
 [
 [ I'm in agreement with Robbie that we want to finish the "facelift"
 [ on the MMD Website before we actively submit it to lots of search
 [ engines.  Once we've done that, we'll be happy to get some help
 [ submitting links.
 [
 [ In the meantime, those of you that have links to the MMD Website
 [ that still reference "www.foxtail.com" should change their links
 [ to:
 [
 [      http://mmd.foxtail.com/
 [
 [ Thanks,
 [ Jody


(Message sent Wed 15 Jul 1998, 20:08:11 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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