fastest you have been crawled

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Originally posted by kinimod
what is the fastest that you have been crawled by a SE and are there some SEs that crawl a lot faster than others?

I remember submitting a free site last year, and finding I was getting Google hits to it just 48 hours later.

That's never happened since, alas, but Google will grab most decently-linked pages within a month, so with them it's more a matter of optimizing for a decent place in the listings than worrying about getting listed at all.

AltaVista appears to be a much more random process - I've had sites appear there within a month or two (even without submitting them to AV) while some decently-linked and presumably optimized sites I've actually submitted to them have never been picked up after a year or more.