Speed of indexing

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Surprising enough, it appears that Yahoo has become the new speed champion when it comes to reflecting changes you make on your website. For years, Google had a big advantage when it came to freshness of content, but no more. Google built it’s foundation on comprehensiveness of it’s index, but it appears their competitors are making great progress in that area.

I still think all of the engines lack when it comes to looking for specific error messages, as well as MSN, Yahoo and Google have all been struggling with relevancy as they make changes. But the sad thing about Google lately is how slowly it takes them to realize changes have been made. Some people think of this as an “aging factor”, but it could also be seen as a sign of increasing incompetence and lethargy.

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