Support: site spiders

When your service involves a search page for your web site, this means that Eidetica will be spidering your site one up to many times a day, according to the Service Level Agreement between you and Eidetica. Some hints about site spiders:

  • The site spiders can be recognised in your server logs as coming from "gitane.eidetica.com" with user agent "wget" or the Eidetica spidering software (which identifies itself as Mozilla but contains a link to the page about our spider policy).
  • After your site has been spidered, it may take up to 30 minutes until the site has been indexed and your search service will be up to date.
  • Currently, we recognise "site search" and "site archives". The first re-retrieves your site each time; the second keeps adding content to the index, assuming your files will never be deleted. A third, optional version continuously monitors your site and keeps the index up to date which exactly that which can be "reached" from your home page.
  • You can request overviews of spidering times on your service page.
  • Eidetica employs "intelligent spidering". This means that any items that appear on all of your pages, such as navigation items, will be skipped and as a consequence, cannot be searched. This substantially increases the quality of the t·find system and suggestions functionality.

Data upload (FTP) Site spiders Search functionality
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