graywolf - 5:13 pm on Jun 2, 2006 (gmt 0)

What's so absolutely frustrating about this is the evasiveness. For example:

Webmasters: Wow, I lost lots of pages from my site I wonder what's going on?

Google: We've got a completly new crawling method ...

Webmasters: That's really not answering my question, is your new crawling method fully operational or are you still working on it? Can I reasonably expect the pages that were dropped to come back into the index soon? Have you changed the "minimum quality" requirements and my site falls below the threshold?

Google: Our new crawling method is much more efficient ...

Webmasters: I don't care if it's more efficient or not I just want to make sure you're crawling my pages and they are getting into the index ...

Google: ... we've changed a significant amount of code ...

Webmasters: ... sigh

I'm personally of the opinion that we're starting to see the 'sandbox of crawling'