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My Diary - August 2008... Monday
Woke up this morning to see how the datacenters on Google had balanced out overnight. In recent months the ACTUAL search phrases that send traffic convert better than the ones I target anyway, so hey - who's complaining? But the recent update was looking like a real biggie! So I went to Google and typed in my "Red Widget special" - a banker of a term for me. But SHOCK - only Adwords results retuned. I am not saying that they had replaced the natural results - I am saying that Google's natural results just weren't there! I tried other phrases... same thing! I tried other datacenters and found that about half were broken! What was I to do?
My Diary - August 2008... Tuesday
Wow - it hit the news. Google algo breaks for a day. Apparently MSN and Yahoo and even Gigablast struggled under the strain of the extra load, but they managed to hold out. The results are still offline and the blogs are raging with speculation. As it happens, my natural search traffic hasn't taken that much of a dent - I always ranked better on the other search engines - but Google has given them the market share for a day or two. Ouch for Google.
My Diary - August 2008 - Wednesday
Google announced a rollback and the affected datacenters are returning results, but there seems to be a problem. Apparently the update was designed to knock out "comparison sites" and "aggregation sites" but the algorithm decided that Google itself should be knocked out on that basis. This meant that Google has spent several days deleteing its own caches from the index. This means that the rollback is incomplete and many results are incomprehensible or returning blank pages. Reporters on MSNBC are reporting that worldwide, searches are down by 17% but people were RAPIDLY getting the hang of the new LIVE.com functionalities and Microsoft's offer of $10 for registering and voting on the SERP result quality seems to have been an incredible success. Matt Cutts' cat has had kittens, so he took the day off.
My Diary - August 2009 - Thursday
Well - it is now being officially called Black Monday 2. The results are the same dire stuff as yesterday and the news is that they will need to do a backup from tape. Apparently the backups on disks are also corrupted because nobody realized that the crawler had been slowly eliminating everything and now only sites with home page PR of 3 or below are in the SERPS because these were the only ones that avoided reguler updates... although that's not QUITE true since TEOMA results have started seeping into the Google results. ASK crashes under the strain.
MyDiary - August 2010 - Friday
Google has announced it is going COMPLETELY offline over the weekend whilst it resets everything. Unfortunately that means Gmail accounts and writely offline... google earth... google analytics.... Orkut... Adsense... Adwords... it's a nightmare. Google share price collapses as revenues dry up.
MyDiary - September 2011 - Monday
Everything is coming back to normal. However, it is estimated that the majority of regular Google users tried other search engines over the past week and 48% of them said they found the experience a better one than they expected. 7 million webmasters changed their MX records to transfer incoming email from Gmail accounts to other online accounts. 200 million new registered users to Live.com in the Americas alone and at least three court cases looming from Google's partners for loss of service. It is anticipated that Google may have lost its majority market share.
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It's ONLY hypothetical - but it could happen. What WOULD the fall out be of Google doing a black Monday?
I always ranked better on the other search engines
Ditto here. Seems as though no matter how hard I try, my forum just doesn't get up in google, only in msn etc..
It took me over a year and a half or more to get my first google adsense check, and that had to go towards a new motherboard for the computer. (I suppose the shock was just too much for the computer to take, recieving the first check! LOL)
It would be interesting to see how others who are google fanatics react.
My Diary - August 2009 - Thursday
Well - it is now being officially called Black Monday 2. The results are the same dire stuff as yesterday and the news is that they will need to do a backup from tape. Apparently the backups on disks are also corrupted because nobody realized that the crawler had been slowly eliminating everything and now only sites with home page PR of 3 or below are in the SERPS because these were the only ones that avoided reguler updates... although that's not QUITE true since TEOMA results have started seeping into the Google results. ASK crashes under the strain.
Webmaster World goes on suicide watch for all forum members as repeated threads are posted looking for "the red pill."
Matt Cutts' cat
Say that five times fast! :)
Say that five times fast!
In this context appears to be in the same vein at least!
