Very sensitive to spam. Pages will be removed or entire domain will be banned. Content served to Alta Vista spiders must be very relevant to the content shown regular visitors. No penalty for cloaking is applied if this criteria is met. Will spider pages submitted through Add URL page.
Major crawls occur approx.
Infrequent introduction of new IP Addresses for it's spiders. Tends to introduce new IP Addresses at major crawl times. Somewhat sensitive to spam. Slow to remove pages in violation. Will ban domains in some spam cases.