Ask slow to update?

[scanmonkey]

How fast is Ask?

I made a change to a site title that has first page listing for a competitive keyword on google, msn, yahoo, and ask

The days to update are as follows
MSN = 2 days
Google = 4 days
Yahoo =2 weeks
Ask = no update yet (3 weeks)

[brian.mark]

Ask is indeed slower than the others to update. But they seem to care even less about on-page since their Hubs and Authorities concept (from purchased Teoma) seems to weed out a lot of spam with little effort.

On-page is well down the list when you really look at their algo, so why would they need to update very quickly?

Brian.

[nelsonez]

Does anyone here know the most current "user agent" info that would show up in a server log for the ASK.com search bot?

Thanks

[brian.mark]

Does anyone here know the most current "user agent" info that would show up in a server log for the ASK.com search bot?

Thanks

In our logs, we're seeing it as the following:

Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma; +http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/tech_crawling.html)

Brian.

[scanmonkey]

We are happy to see that ASK has updated our site title.

MSN = 2 days
Google = 4 days
Yahoo = 2 weeks
Ask = 5 weeks

[tigerflag]

Ask has never updated my site. I made huge changes to it over seven months ago, changing it from a personal to a business site. It's never picked up any of those changes. The site is optimized for search engines. It has a robots.txt file and a sitemap. It's been picked up by all the other major search engines and has lots of links to it. Even a search for the name of my business doesn't get a result in ask. What gives?

[scanmonkey]

Even a search for the name of my business doesn't get a result in ask. What gives?

Ask is just slow to update. You are now #1 in Ask for "tigerflag". Congratulations!