Administrivia: Searching with Yahoo!

Google has been very slow to rebuild its indexing of WIST, for reasons I can't quite figure out. Granted, I originally caused the problems by unintentionally blocking the Googlebots IPs, but I've had that fixed for a couple of months. Still, when I look at "visitors" I'm seeing only a handful of Googlebot hits.

Yahoo's Yslurp bot, though, has been hitting WIST like crazy, so I've added a Yahoo search box in the sidebar as yet another way to search WIST.

As an example of the disparity, a search for "liberty" comes up with 137 results in Yahoo, 71 in Google. On the other hand, I like the Google results better -- the Yahoo outputs include lots of bits here and there that aren't WIST-oriented, and it picks up the page description in the results text every time, which is a bit annoying.

But, for the moment, Yahoo's results counts are coming out better, so I'll be leaving the box there for the time being.

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