itloc - 5:25 pm on Feb 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

One very simple example:

You have a company called Widget. You have a website widget.com. You have a listing in DMOZ for Widget, pointing to Widget.com. And you have a Listing in Yahoo pointing to Widget.com. You have thousands of websites linking you.

You have a pagerank above 5

You go to Google and enter "Widget" and it returns a site that has made a link to you? Your website appears on position 65 with a subpage widget.com/tralala/getreal.htm

NO WAY - but thats exactly how the index is at the moment...and therefore this update is not over yet.

From my experience: Google is not stupid and they have some excellent people. But shuffling and weighting so many pages needs a lot of time. I am amazed that is even possible...

Years ago i did some larger realtime financial systems (stock market data) and i learned one thing: it needs time to process large amounts of data.

itloc