Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Positioning Weekly Free Newsletter, April 1, 2006 edition

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Touby made that statement upon learning that Vast.com had linked from its search results to full mediabistro.com job listings pages, even though those pages require registration when accessed on the mediabistro.com site. Vast.com CEO Naval Ravikant said Vast.com's crawlers do not automatically register or login to sites, so they must have found passage through the mediabistro.com system via a legitimate entryway. Others are raising questions of resources. "Right now we're not thrilled with the impact [Vast.com] is having on our services," stated Mitch Golub, president of online auto classified publisher Cars.com. Vast.com's crawlers "are taxing our server," he explained, noting that as the Vast.com makes contact with Cars.com's server to grab listings, they slow it down, which affects the site's user experience.

Craigslist last year raised similar issues about Oodle, which lists classifieds in a variety of categories including Real Estate, Services, Jobs and Pets. The aggregator complied craigslist's request to stop crawling its server for classifieds. Vast.com currently features listings derived from craigslist in its results pages. Vast.com, which launched last week, currently sifts through 40,000 sites to track down job, auto and personal classifieds. "We really are crawling the Web," explained Ravikant. "We're not vertical specific.

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