| FAST Search
Launched in 1999, FAST Search is a Norwegian company that took the web by surprise. FAST Search was the first search engine to break the 200 million pages indexed milestone and continues to spider and crawl the web at phenomenal rates keeping up with competing search engines in terms of volume of pages and freshness of data spidered. FAST Search also powers additional search results to Lycos .
Website Information
Submission & Ranking Process
| META Tags |
FAST Search supports the Robots META tag and uses your title to index your site. It does not appear that the Description or Keywords META Tags are currently supported. |
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| Spidering |
FAST Search will spider or follow all links it finds on your website and index them into their database. You can control the degree of spidering through a standardized robots governing file or META tags. |
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| No Spam/META Abuse |
FAST Search will not index websites that try to "Spam" their index with the same page over and over. In fact, FAST Search has the ability to filter out duplicate pages and may not index multiple versions. |
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| Additional Information |
FAST Search recognizes upper and lower case as different characters. As well, FAST Search conducts full page archiving in that when it spiders your website, it will store all contents of your pages into its database. |
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| Popularity Counts |
If lots of websites link to your site, then your site will be ranked higher in FAST Search's rankings. |
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| Submission Time |
Getting listed in FAST Search takes under 1 week |
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| Special Triggers |
Fast Search has special reserved triggers which can help assess your rankings and positioning once you've submitted your website to Fast Search.
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