steveb - 10:10 pm on Jul 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

"Now someone tell me Google have improved the serps since the roll out of big daddy"

Okay, I will. I can't see how anyone can make the case that the serps are not dramatically better. The results on the datacenters are not very good, but the results on google.com are for the most part great.

They do need to relist and rerank properly somewhere between five and 25% of the sites on the Internet, but aside from that (which is mostly still just because their database is corrupted with inept supplemental data) the vast majority of sites listed deserve their approximate listing. Only a couple types of spammy garbage is "working".

If Google were top flush the supplementals completely, without resurrecting a lot of garbage, this should free up the good sites stupidly lost, and lead to even better results.

Every datacenter shows fairly weak results, so it's amazingly out of character that the far superior comcast results first seen last month actually have become the dominant result set. That may bode ill for the future, but then again it may be a sign of better things to come.