Heavy Tries to match words that are spelled similar or sound similar
No
No
Word Capitalization (Is toy=Toy?)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Keyword Order (Is "paris hotels"="hotels paris"
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes(?)
No
Plurals (Is toy=toys?)
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Looks for keywords in domain name (http://keyword-keyword.com)
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Looks for Keywords in URL's (on page)
-
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Maybe
Pages score higher based on alphabetical order of domain name?
No
No
No
No
No
-
No
Do newly submitted pages score better?
-
No
Yes
No
-
No (older is better)
No
Link Popularity
Yes
Yes (major influence)
Yes
Yes
Click Popularity
Yes
Direct Hit
Reviewed sites score higher?
-
Yahoo / ODP Preference
-
-
-
-
-
Preference for big sites? (lots of pages)
Yes
Yes
-
No
No
Yes
No
Will the spider accept a cookie and use it while indexing your site?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
"Click" popularity influences page score?
No
No
No
Yes
Future?
What text is indexed? (and can be found during a default search)
Google
Lycos U.K. (T-Rex search engine)
Fast Alltheweb.com & Lycos US
Direct Hit
AltaVista
Inktomi
Words in <title>
1129 characters
Yes
1129 characters
Yes
417 characters
Yes
Words in <style>
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Meta Keywords <meta name= keywords...
No
No
No
?
1017+ characters
1129 characters
Meta Description <meta name= description...
No
No
No
?
1017 characters
1129 characters
<no frames> Content
Yes
Yes
Yes
?
Yes
Yes
Dublin Core Meta Data
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
<!-- comment --> tag text
No
No
-
No
No
Hidden Input form text (Trick #14)
-
No
-
No
No
Form <option> text
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
N/A
No
Link Descriptions <a href="www.your
server.com"> keyword</a>
Yes
Yes-
?
Yes
Yes
No
Text within url link <a href="http://www .yourserver.com/ keyword.html>
Yes
No
?
Yes
-
No
Indexes .asp files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Indexes pages with "?","=","&" in
the URL?
Yes
Yes
Yes
YES
Yes
Spidering (how deep will they go and how long does it take?)
Google
Lycos U.K. (T-Rex search engine)
Fast Alltheweb.com & Lycos US
Direct Hit
AltaVista
Inktomi
How many different pages can you get indexed?
No Limit?
No Limit
No Limit?
400
No Limit
Submitted Pages
1-2 months
Varies - Months
Around 15 -30 days
2+ Months
2-30 days
48 hours to three weeks
1 level deep
Monthly-Excellent
1 month
Excellent
Poor
2-4 weeks
2-4 weeks
Multiple levels deep
Yes! - Excellent
Poor
Excellent
Poor
Poor
Poor
Supports Robots.txt
Partial
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Supports <meta> robot tag
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Frames Support (noframes tag)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Follows Frameset links
Yes
-
-
Grabber
follows href links. Grabber also follows framed pages to index the content of pages containing frames, but does not create separate index entries for individual frames.
No
Yes - Will index content of framed page and list URL of frameset
