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IndexNow claims to distribute the pings to other participating search engines[1], and to participate they need to have "noticeable presence in at least one mark
by rob-olmos 4y ago
IndexNow claims to distribute the pings to other participating search engines[1], and to participate they need to have "noticeable presence in at least one market", so yea still seems to be somewhat exclusive?
Eg, would Ahrefs or Semrush qualify to join the party?
1: https://www.indexnow.org/searchengines https://www.indexnow.org/searchengines
- richbell 4y agoThere is a noticeable lack of information about how to enroll. I suspect it's more of a "if you need to ask you aren't big enough" type deal.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoOr maybe just ask? I've had staggering success with just ending emails to people, including businesses.
- richbell 4y agoI agree, you can get surprisingly far by just asking. That said, I can't find any contact information on the IndexNow website.
- jgrahamc 4y agoFrom the announcement blog (https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawler-hints-how-cloudflare-is-reducing-the-environmental-impact-of-web-searches/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawler-hints-how-cloudflare-is-...): This is an exciting problem to solve, and we look forward to working with others that want to help the Internet be more efficient and performant while reducing needless energy consumption. We plan on having more news to share on this front soon. If you operate a bot that relies on content freshness and are interested in working with us on this project, please email crawlerhints@cloudflare.com.
- richbell 4y agoPerhaps I'm missing something but Crawler Hints seems to be completely separate from IndexNow — it's just a CloudFlare product that implements it.
- wumpus 4y agoMost search engine people don't call ahrefs or semrush search engines -- they're SEO tools. Having to have existing market share as a search engine is going to really limit the number of participants.