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When will the "is this the update thread be this month?"</:)>
A day is a lifetime in the life of a mayfly :)
Now, if you defined "long while" people might just get the message.
How about an "I wouldnt worry about it for at least a week possibly two or 3 or 4 even" post.
Perhaps its time for a forum rule that bans users for 24 hours every time they post an "is this the update yet post" :D
[edited by: onionrep at 8:44 pm (utc) on Mar. 27, 2003]
Oy. If I say it will be a long while, will that head off the threads and meta-threads about the update?
Hey, you should be pretty happy everyone has concerns/anxiety over the updates. Do you see many threads about when ink, atw, altivista, etc...will update? Nope.
Although, perhaps Ink will be on your heels soon- so celebrate the fact we webheads go nuts for the G update. :)
AW
*may be a lie
;)
[edited by: Receptional_Andy at 9:12 pm (utc) on Mar. 27, 2003]
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There is an historical list of the first date of combination of "i-t-t-u threads" that I think will show, if you analyse the dates of combination, a *significantly* different eigenvalue to the dates of the actual updates.
can't locate that thread for the moment though...
I thought of great solution, just tell us exactly when the monthly update will occur make sure to give us 2-3 weeks notice so we can prepare. Also, it would be nice if you could give the Google algo as well. Better yet how about we just tell you our sites and the keywords we want and you give us top placement This all seems to make sense to me ;)
It occurs to me this might not even be possible. Because of various things that could go wrong, including the possibility that Google might decide some changes in the algo made things worse once they ran it, and they'd start over again. Thus, while Google may have target dates to do updates in the future, various factors might mean they'd miss those targets.
Of course they are different. You wouldn't expect them to be all alike? That would be spamming. ;)
The unofficial "is-this-the-update-thread?"-thread will be official as soon as at least two admins or three mods have asked the posters to calm down.
Btw. I expect the dance to begin in this weekend. Unless someone buys Ask/Teoma. Then Google will most likely postpone it to the beginning of next month like they did in december and february. :)
It occurs to me this might not even be possible. Because of various things that could go wrong, including the possibility that Google might decide some changes in the algo made things worse once they ran it, and they'd start over again. Thus, while Google may have target dates to do updates in the future, various factors might mean they'd miss those targets.
Too true, but that fact aside just think, what a great job for those Google engineers :) Tweak tweak tweak, test test test, tweak tweak tweak, test test test.
The perfect job for google dance fanatics?