Olaf e.o.,
Tried the same thing, searching for my own name. Found nothing. The searched
for the name of my site, "pictues of insects". This resulted all kind of
pictures (from dogs, frogs, a lot of people and indeed some insects). There
was one of my pictures in there. No reference to anything else on my site.
This is what really bothers me. Exept for the original URL which kan be seen
on the status bar of a browser, there is no reference to my site, the
context of the picture or any of my copyrights. There even is a "Copyright ©
2000 Lycos" underneath the thumbs page! They surely don't have any copyright
for that and I would at least expect them to notify me when entering my
pictures into their system. I also would want them to give me the
opportunity to get my pictures out of there!
2 more Eurocents
Daan
>
> So, what can it be that happens then? Well, an interesting observation is
> that the ADITL 3 entries _are_ found, whilst the TOPE ones _are not_. I
have
> a very easy explanation for this: ADITL 3 used an older version of the
> scripts, which required a manually made index page, whereas the index
pages
> for TOPE are all generated by a script. My conclusion is that there is
some
> sort of Lycos search engine which will traverse all known hosts and look
for
> an HTML "IMG SRC" tag, along with regular text (such as the names that
> appear on the ADITL 3 index page), then take the both of them and bind
them
> together. It is possible that the TOPE entries are also somehow indexed by
> Lycos, but there is no way their search engine will have the logic to
> interpret my way of binding the entries to the names of the submitters, so
> one cannot find them by looking for one's name (perhaps words like "tope"
> might do it though)...
>
> Interesting...
>
> C-ya!
> Olafo
>
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