ClintFC - 2:04 am on May 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

Again, I ask....what has G. proposed in order to help these webmasters? I know they have announced an email addresss for webmasters to provide examples, but what else? Anything? Hello....is anyone there?

The simple answer is: Nothing, beyond the email address.

Google run a very tight ship when it comes to disseminating information. While this policy has many obvious advantages, it has some serious downsides as well. When a serious bug is introduced, the lack of communication, both within Google and with the outside world, can seriously hamper their ability to identify and fix the problem. Maintaining the high level of secrecy that they do, requires a great deal of "need-to-know" segmentation. I'm certain that only a very small handful of Google employees have the full picture of exactly what is going on. How many of Google's employees have a birdseye view of all of the changes encompassed by "Big Daddy"? I don't know the answer, but I'd guess it is a tiny, tiny, number. What chance then, of identifying and sorting out the current problems?