Flotsam and Jetsam

Flotsam and Jetsam

Aug 11 / 3:23am

Real-Time search indexing

Googlebot has gotten faster at indexing real-time sites. I posted a link to friendfeed.com's API room at 3:57pm. Googlebot indexed it at 4:14pm, 17 minutes later.


Another bot running on the Amazon Web Services indexed the link even faster, at 4:01pm - just 4 minutes after posting it. That bot doesn't identify itself in the User-Agent, PyCURL is the name of the opensource software package it is using to fetch URLs. It also does not appear to honor robots.txt, which is a questionable decision.

Botindexing

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