Saturday, June 21, 1997

The text-gifs are still there, but microsoft.com is back on the air with an explanation.

The most popular pages on www.scripting.com. This report is updated every night at 2AM.

The site changes file is rebuilt every night at 12:01AM. It lists all the pages that changed in each 24-hour period going back to 4/29/97. We think this is a more rational approach than CDF or MCF for telling crawlers what changed on a site. It's low tech, and it gives the crawler exactly the information it needs. We provide full source code for the suite that maintains this file. It's Mac-only, but it can easily manage NT sites accessible over a LAN thru file sharing.