Instant indexing

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Instant indexing is a feature offered by Internet search engines that enables users to submit content for immediate inclusion into the index.[1]

Delayed inclusion

Certain search engine services may require an extended period of time for inclusion, which is seen as a delay and causes frustration to website administrators who wish to have their websites appear in search engine results.[2]

Delayed inclusion may be due to the size of the index that the service must maintain or due to corporate, political or social policies[

crawler program which does not allow for manual adding of content to index.[3]

Criticisms

A criticism of instant indexing is that certain services filter results manually or via algorithms that prevent instant inclusion to avoid inclusion of content that violates the service's policies.[citation needed]

Instant indexing impacts the timeliness of the content included in the index. Given the manner in which many

invisible web) by the crawler because it cannot reach the website during its traversal. It is assumed that unlinked websites are less authoritative and less popular, and therefore of less quality. Over time, if a website is popular or authoritative, it is assumed that other websites
will eventually link to it. If a search engine service provides instant indexing, it bypasses this quality control mechanism by not requiring incoming links. This infers that the search engine's service produces lower quality results.

Select search services that offer such a service typically also offer

inorganic search
. This may reduce the quality of search results.

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