Can search engines such as AltaVista mine the information out of a Zope website. I have seen responses to other questions that there are ways to use a search engine to search a Zope website, but can the commercial laces search the website. It would be nice for other places to know about things in your website, unless you want it to be private.
Just for the record, I've seen several robots crawl through my Zope sites and later found them indexed on the comercial engines. So, yeah, it works!
Just for the record, the main thing you need to watch out for as far as search engines indexing your site is funny links that make use of acquisition. A side effect of the way Acquisition works is that an object can "acquire itself from itself" - in other words a url like: http://myserver.com/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/ ...is perfectly valid (and will be found by Zope through Acquisition) even though there is only really one top level foo object :) If foo in this case happens to be a document, having a link like: <a href="foo">...</a> in it will probably cause some search robots to lose their minds :) Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com