Back around the 1st of February I started a new website. It had a
couple of inbound links from other sites of mine and I did a manual
submission to Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Since Teoma doesn't take manual
submission, I have to wait for them to find me which they finally did
over the weekend.

Now, after five weeks, the search engine results are rather
interesting. Here is the list of indexed page counts for queries of
the form "site:worldbeachlist.com" on the four engines:

Google 1
MSN 32
Yahoo 11
Temoa 0

Teoma is a lost cause, but Google is rather disapointing right now.
What is more interesting is that Google has been deep crawling my site
for nearly two weeks now and has looked at over 15,000 pages. MSN and
Yahoo have only touched a few pages, but those they did made it into
the index in a few days.

Google seems to be really slow and dealing with new sites. I know they
are better about adding new content for existing sites being that I see
USENET posts, which are mirrored on several websites, showing up in
just a few days.

What experiences have others had with their first deep crawl for a
site? Does Google usually not index until it has finished a deep
crawl, or is it just slow at adding pages for new sites even when it
starts the crawl?

Thanks.

Beach Comber