On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 at 20:58:06 -0600, Searcher wrote: > No replies on this so I'm asking again if HOP count definitely means how many > levels deep to go into a site when indexing a site from the top down.
Yes, hops is incremented whenever an URL is followed. The only slight exception is if you have set IncrementHopsOnRedirect to "no" (default is "yes"). If so, the hops count will not increment on 301/302/303 response codes. > In my initial run, I had not noticed this and had left it to the default 256. > Maybe that's why I was still indexing after two solid weeks :). Most likely :) Matt.
