Whitey - 11:43 pm on May 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

I don't know much about the technics , but strategically, what i do see is some massive commercial/operational juggling going on ..... done on the run with operational fall out along the way.

So if poor interim results relevance , supplementals, page drops etc are upsetting webmasters and users alike, this is being factored against a product that has to be bigger, better and more profitable than before and they reckon the pain is worth it.

Matt, Virginia and their crew will do what they can to keep us smiling, but i think they are going "full bore" in the overall upgrade mission, while balancing the relationship of webmaster/site owners and users.

I'm sure this acceleration sharpens Yahoo and MSN who are about to apply themselves as well .... I think Bill Gates earmarked an initial couple of billion last week to compete with Google didn't he?

They can't afford the gap to be too wide because it strategically weakens them.

I guess this is all obvious ....but it does make holding onto the ship a bit difficult through this lenghtly storm .... just hold on folks!