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> The keywords section will give you an idea of the sorts of things people
> are using to find your sites... f'rinstance, someone doing a Yahoo search
> for "symbols of hate" ended up in a Sylvrstorm page.  (Okay, so sometimes
> search engines are stoned.  I'm going to see about keeping them out of the
> transitory Mhonarc archives from now on.)

For those of you who are now thinking I'm running some kind of twisted game
involving "symbols of hate", it was actually just a fluke.  I tried a Yahoo
search using that with the quotes, and did not get anything related to
SylvrStorm.  Turns out that when you do the search without the quotes, it
picks up one of the SylvrStorm archive pages where the subject line of a
player's post included the word "symbols" (he was investigating some
mystical symbols he'd seen).  There was nothing about "hate" in it at all.
I have no idea why this comes in at 4th place out of 8544 hits.  Go figure.

Incidentally, does anyone know how to get a site listed with Yahoo?  Not
that it's really important, since my site (in Geocities) is really just for
the players and lurkers in my game; but I've tried a few times to get sites
listed with Yahoo and never succeeded.  I've always filled out all their
forms and been careful to select the correct place for it and follow all
their instructions, but I've never gotten a site listed or received any
indication why not.  Like I said, not really important, but a bit of a pet
peeve.

Kevin Tisserand
SylvrStorm Dungeon Master


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On 09 May 1999 12:31:15 (-0600), you wrote:

>Forget about it and get it listed elsewhere. From my understanding and what
>I've heard, Yahoo is very 'cliquey.' Apparently, it can be on a whim
>whether you are listed or not. If you submit twice, they just toss it out
>from then on. I suppose if you offer them a cash incentive, that might
>grease the wheels

I managed to get my Kalyr site listed with them when I first put the
page up two years ago.  Maybe they've got pickier since then.  The
haven't listed my train page :(

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> I suspect Geocities pages are too transient for them to index.

I thought of that too, but the site for the Phoenyx hosted game that I'm a
player in (Master of the Desert Nomads) is listed in Yahoo, and it's also a
Geocities site.  Maybe they got stricter during the interval between the two
games' start dates.  Whatever.


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In article <000501be99e9$955296c0$6b2fc28e@audrey>,
"Audrey  & Kevin Tisserand"  wrote:
>For those of you who are now thinking I'm running some kind of twisted game
>involving "symbols of hate", it was actually just a fluke.  I tried a Yahoo
>search using that with the quotes, and did not get anything related to
>SylvrStorm.  Turns out that when you do the search without the quotes, it
>picks up one of the SylvrStorm archive pages where the subject line of a
>player's post included the word "symbols" (he was investigating some
>mystical symbols he'd seen).  There was nothing about "hate" in it at all.
>I have no idea why this comes in at 4th place out of 8544 hits.  Go figure.

Like I said, search engines are stoned.  But that's okay... the
latest amusing reference is "nasty women of star trek."  Heh.


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