KrisVal
msg:769118 | 9:14 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
<---Isn't this misrepresentation of my brand or something?---> Legally, I can not imagine that Google is violating any law, but it is absolutely ridiculous. If the Goal of Google is to have a great search experience for the user, shouldn't the user expect to get the "Coca-Cola" website when they search for it. I sell products and services on this particular site and it is a legal registered trademark with the USPTO. I have a loyal following and I get a lot of searches to my brand name. If Google wants users to have a good experience, they should ensure that the domain people are looking for goes to the top of the query. Vent -> I am really sick of the power Google holds over webmasters. Everything from design to wasting countless hours on issues like this. I hope MSN kicks their butt in the next couple of years. And I believe they will. They always win!
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theBear
msg:769119 | 9:26 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
The darn update isn't even done yet and everyone is up in arms. I wish G would do these offline and then throw the switch
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Kangol
msg:769120 | 9:41 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
This morning I was out of SEPR. My site was only to be found on about 15 DCs. Now I am only in 216.239.53.104, 66.102.7.104 and 66.102.7.99.
I have the sad feeling that this SEPR are spreading all over. The results are really bad for me, my site is noware to be found even for his name. How relevant are these results?
I’m just upset… [edited by: Kangol at 9:45 pm (utc) on Feb. 7, 2005]
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mzadorian
msg:769121 | 9:44 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Hey Guys, since Saturday, my web site has been going in and out of google every 20 minutes. Since I believe thursday and friday, I was in there with great ranking. Now when its in, my ranking is awesome, but then all of a sudden, every 20 minutes its completely out. Has this happened to anyone else?
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Chico_Loco
msg:769122 | 9:59 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
| The darn update isn't even done yet and everyone is up in arms |
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It's done enough for me to know that there are either major complications at Google, or that they had a plan change and the best relavancy is no longer as important.
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baron13
msg:769123 | 10:10 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Does anyone have an idea: - why google is making these updates always "live" and not in the background and than, when finished, displaying it to the surfers? I think it is not really nice for the normal surfer if they do not find what they are looking for! The results re crazy. In my business we have different categories. For example: blue widgets, hot widgets, no widgets. And normaly if you enter hot widgets in google, the no and the blue widgets are never listed. But now if you enter hot widgets, you can see hot, blue and no widgets on the first site in the serps. I don't know why it is so difficult for google to make their updates in the background and not to show such bad serps to the surfers....
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Armi
msg:769124 | 10:12 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I have new results on 216.239.37.99 My project was in the Sandbox, after Allegra I jumped with my keywords from 200-500 to 20-50. Now I have the positions 5-15 on this Datacenter.....
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diddlydazz
msg:769125 | 10:16 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I am seeing better results on 216.239.37.99 looks like the "not finding the url" problem has been eradicated for the urls I am checking dazz
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Bluesplinter
msg:769126 | 10:17 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
| I have new results on: 216.239.37.99 |
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Yep, ditto. A search on my company name has been coming up #4 lately, with sites that link TO me coming in ahead of me, but that DC has things in proper order (for me, at least).
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androidtech
msg:769127 | 10:17 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
baron13, Probably because there is no way to do a small run that would be representative of the full population, where the "population" is the billions of web pages that Google has. So anything they try in a microcosm (in the background), would have very little chance of scaling up to the real search universe because the keyword statistics of the microcosm population would have very little resemblance to the real search universe. So instead, they probably run multiple tests in parallel, with different versions of the algorithm on different data centers. Analyze what works best, cross populate it to the other servers, and keep doing this until they get something they "like". The behavior being seen is very much like that of doing a genetic algorithms run. If you want more info, just punch "genetic algorithms" into Google and start reading. Wild speculation on my part of course.
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Rollo
msg:769128 | 10:23 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I'm out of the sandbox at these DCs... 66.102.7.104
66.102.7.105
66.102.7.147
66.102.7.99 Stuck in the sandbox at the rest.
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theBear
msg:769129 | 10:24 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Someone said: It's done enough for me to know that there are either major complications at Google, or that they had a plan change and the best relavancy is no longer as important. Maybe, maybe not.
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walkman
msg:769130 | 10:27 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
"216.239.37.99?" nope. Still no luck there. Maybe my site's info is still being tranferred :) from here:
[66.102.7.104...]
[66.102.7.105...]
[66.102.7.147...]
[66.102.7.99...] [216.239.53.99...]
[216.239.53.104...] [edited by: walkman at 10:33 pm (utc) on Feb. 7, 2005]
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illusionist
msg:769131 | 10:31 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
216.239.37.99 seems to be the most updated ( more pages) of all the DC's. What's even more cool is that my sites which were wiped out in allegra seem to be back in. Damn, i hope it sticks!
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Chico_Loco
msg:769132 | 10:37 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
| 216.239.37.99 seems to be the most updated ( more pages) of all the DC's. What's even more cool is that my sites which were wiped out in allegra seem to be back in. Damn, i hope it sticks! |
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I 2nd that!
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olias
msg:769133 | 10:42 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
216.239.37.99 is certainly an interesting one at the moment. My site that dropped heavily is showing up better than it was before the start of this update there. It is not a simple roll back though as there are other sites in the mix that weren't there pre-allegra.
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Newman
msg:769134 | 10:44 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
>> 216.239.37.99 seems to be the most updated .... Those results are sooooo messed up its unbeleivable!
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skippy
msg:769135 | 10:44 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
216.239.37.99 That one I like got my domain name back for the first time.
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walkman
msg:769136 | 11:05 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
" [216.239.37.99...] " is anyone else doing bad (the same as today /yesterday) at this DC? Nothing changed on site of mine, that matters. Seems like the sandbox for a way too old site with plenty of links. All the link pages are ahead of me for "domain-com". I'm throwing in the towel for a day or two. I can't take this anymore.
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diddlydazz
msg:769137 | 11:10 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
walkman, the results on that data center are changing every few minutes this update is far from done by the look of things (it seems) i myself have been guilty of prejudging this update give it another shot in 10 mins dazz
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Armi
msg:769138 | 11:10 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
No I have new results on this Datacenter and I lost lots of positions (but I think I´m still out of the sandbox)..... But "-sdfsdfq -ddsf -dsfsqdf -dqdfqsdf -dqfsdfqsd -sqdfqsd -sdfsdqfqsdf -sqdfqsdfqs -qsdfqsdf -sdfsqdfqsdf -sqfqsdfqsd -sdfqsdfsq -sdfqsdfsdf -qsdfqsdf" shows better positions......
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illusionist
msg:769139 | 11:11 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
[216.239.37.99...] that DC just reverted back to old crap. My sites gone again.
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skippy
msg:769140 | 11:13 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
216.239.37.99 Reverted back. Hope it was a peek at the future.
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robster124
msg:769141 | 11:14 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Skippy - I concur!
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walkman
msg:769142 | 11:18 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
"http://216.239.37.99 that DC just reverted back to old crap. My sites gone again. " Minute by minute coverage: tune in to Webmasterword.com
I know we look pathetic and some here are probably thinking it, but this is our livelyhood. This is similar to having a grocery store and the main road leading to it got flooded. Google is that road to us.
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suet
msg:769143 | 11:19 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
[216.239.37.99...] Yay, when I search for my domain.com I'm number 1. Surely this is how it should be? Come on Google do the right thing, you have had your playtime, now let's get to work.
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olias
msg:769144 | 11:22 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Yeah I am seeing some further movement there, but partly because the daily update of new cached pages has just taken place as well. Exciting stuff isn't it?!
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WebFusion
msg:769145 | 11:26 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
| I know we look pathetic and some here are probably thinking it, but this is our livelyhood. This is similar to having a grocery store and the main road leading to it got flooded. Google is that road to us. |
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My question is...how on earth can you stand to live like that? Having your livelhood resting in the hands of an entity over which you have no control is (IMHO) madness. I think you people are looking at this the wrong way. As opposed to checking various datacenters every few minutes, why not use that time more wsely to pursue other sources of traffic IN CASE your google traffic does not come back anytime soon. Where will you be a week from now if you've wasted all this time checking and rechecking to see if your site came back? No better off than you are now! It's like asking a stranger to hold your rope while you rappel off a cliff!
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suet
msg:769146 | 11:32 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
| I think you people are looking at this the wrong way. As opposed to checking various datacenters every few minutes, why not use that time more wsely to pursue other sources of traffic IN CASE your google traffic does not come back anytime soon. Where will you be a week from now if you've wasted all this time checking and rechecking to see if your site came back? No better off than you are now! |
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Some of us can multi-task you know!
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brixton
msg:769147 | 11:44 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
64.233.171.99
64.233.171.104
64.233.171.105
64.233.171.147
216.239.53.99
216.239.39.99
216.239.37.104
216.239.37.147
216.239.57.99
216.239.37.99
216.239.39.104
216.239.37.105
all are back!
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Liane
msg:769148 | 11:47 pm on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Watching data centers do their thing is like watching grass grow ... and it looks as though you guys are expecting one humdinger of a crop! ;)
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