University Search Engines

I wrote an article last night about the ‘thon’ put on by Penn State University and a few weeks back about a singer who went to the University of Georgia; what has really caught my attention is the fact that both Universities picked up and added to their blogs those stories in about an hour after publication.

This has me wondering if only the Universities with large computer science departments are able to spider the web that quickly? If that is the case I would assume the larger better known schools such as Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, The University of Southern California, Stanford University, University of California Los Angeles, Harvard, New York University,Yale University, and Princeton University will spider and find this article in an hour or so.

What about the other colleges and universities who’s computer science departments are not so well known? Auburn University, Florida State, Louisiana State University, Arkansas State University, Mississippi State University, University Of Mississippi, Iowa State University, and the list goes on. Are these schools going to be able to search the entire web and find these references to their schools, and if so how long will it take?

Now just for curiosity’s sake how about the smaller even lesser known local colleges and universities such as the one I attended; University of Louisiana Monroe, Louisiana Tech, Alcorn State University, Mississippi College, Xavier University Of Louisiana, Middle Tennessee State University, Tennessee Technological University, University Of Bridgeport, Brandeis University,Central Connecticut State University; just to name a few. Will these computer science departments spider the web and find this reference to their departments?>

I will be very interested in seeing the results of these schools ability to find this post, and how long it takes them to do so.

Yes, I realize I haven’t really made this post about virtual worlds, but sometimes a man simply wants to satisfy his curiosity.