Popularity results
When finished, each engine will show either a green tick or a red cross to indicate if the check has been successful. Some common reasons for searches failing are:
- Incorrect proxy settings
- Setting your timeout value too low
- Internet access being blocked eg. software based firewalls or virus protection software
- Search engines responding slowly
Results column descriptions:
Engine
The name of the engine.
Popularity
The popularity of the URL i.e. number of links found to the URL on the engine.
Change
The change in popularity (number of links) since the last check.
Saturation
The number of pages from the URL that are currently indexed.
Date
The date and time of the check.