Re: fewer pages indexed with WWW. More pages WITHOUT WWW.

Hi John,
It's nice to agree on things, especially around the holidays :-)
Definitely if webmasters, hosting services etc are aware of the
problem, they should correct it themselves and not wait for Google -
see we agree there also! I'm probably being a little hard on Google
right now because I would like to see everyone with a website with good
content get a fair chance in the SERPs. I'd hate to see Google become
a search engine for only the technically elite (or those that can hire
it). Since I'm neither, I just rant :-)

Not that I'm a big Yahoo! or MSN fan but I just don't see some of these
issues there. Traffic from these search engines seems to be very
proportional to how much unique content I can publish on my site. Its
interesting that during my DMCA filing flurry, I was checking all three
search engines and filed complaints there as well if the offending
pages were indexed. Yahoo! had the fewest offending pages - it seemed
that its filters caught a lot of these spammers. The one site I
mentioned earlier that had 1000 copies of our home page had a total of
around 5 - 10 pages indexed by Yahoo! and none of our material was on
those pages. Yahoo! also removes copyright violators in 48 hours. I
think MSN relies a lot on manual reporting, but it too had far fewer
pages from the sites that had copied us. Quality of search results on
these two needs improvement, but they are getting better. Google still
produces the best results and that's why they're number one IMHO!