Oliver_Henniges - 8:12 pm on Oct 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

> I've been arguing the 4-byte theory now for 16 months

I bow my head and apologize for not having done any research on that.

> I would say 'it would take them a while' is correct, except I'd change that too: it is taking them a while. Obviously they couldn't start this during IPO time, but they can now, and equally obviously they were never going to admit what the real situation is.

> they can do it all at once

well..

I conclude so far that the four-byte-theory all in all is not too unreasonable. Since in the past we all never knew what the 'real situation' was, why not stop reading tea leaves and proceed to more tactical efforts:

As a matter of fact, most of us webmasters suffer more or less heavily by pagerank of our new sites not being reindexed for three months now. Can you imagine a headline in the Financial Times saying "google facing serious technical problems" or so? Just an idea to maybe accelerate what is going on.

> Untrue, I have PR0 pages ranking on un-lagged sites, and PR5 pages that are google-lagged that are nowhere.

Maybe, but did you - as me - watch some of them bounce up and down in ranking almost every hour? This is not what we'd expect from a thoroughly working search engine, is it?