IMHO, I'd be careful what you wish for. Say updates came twice a month and in the first update you do real well and then in the second you do really poorly. Would you not rather had just had one update that month and received as much business from it as possible?
Just a thought.
jady
2:49 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
Does google ever update on Weekends or does everyone think the earliest will be Monday? From what I can remember, updates are usually business days..
MetropolisRobot
3:03 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
If they are anything like us there are certain days to avoid. For instance our IT team do not like to do anything on a Monday as they are looking at logs and things that happened over the weekend.
Neither do they like to do things on a Friday (because if it goes wrong it then spills into the weekend.
I believe that someone said the most common days are Tuesday and Thursday....
skipfactor...now you'll have everyone excited....just wait and see "oooooh sunday...that's tomorrow...."
;)
crobb305
3:24 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
Only 7 out of 30 updates summarized in Brett's table have occurred on Sunday. That's only 23%. The other 77% have occurred on other days.
[edited by: crobb305 at 3:32 pm (utc) on April 5, 2003]
skipfactor
3:29 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
They did an unprecedented 48 hr countdown announcement when the update thread went wacko last month, can't hurt.
<I WILL REMAIN CALM THIS TIME, I WILL REMAIN CALM THIS TIME, I WILL REMAIN CALM THIS TIME...>
MetropolisRobot
3:32 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
hey crobb, what happened to the other 10%
;)
John_Caius
3:35 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
erm... [counts on fingers]
alxdean
4:07 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
well with 12.9% on a monday 6.4% on a tuesday 16.1% on a Wednesday 22.6% on a Thursday 9.7% on a Friday 9.7% on a Saturday 22.6% on a Sunday
Well as Sunday would mean exactly one month after the last update and I would not survive until Thursday for an update I'd put my bets on Sunday.
mbennie
4:09 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
Based on the percentages above, I would give it a 100% chance of occuring sometime betwen Monday and Sunday.
alxdean
4:11 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
Sunday would also mean exactly one year after the last March update, which was on April 6th 2002. Please let it be Sunday.
crobb305
4:14 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
Yeah, I am hoping for Sunday too :)
C
MetropolisRobot
4:29 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
Sunday is a good day for an update. No evil boss hanging around asking questions like whats a google dance, why are you surfing webmasterworld intently...what's going on...
wgonz
4:59 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
Hi!
My first post, and I want to thank all of you for a lot of things I learned here.
I saw a little movement in (www-zu)...
Have a great dance!
Wilmer
crobb305
5:14 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
I saw a little movement in (www-zu)...
I still see fresh-date stamps. My understanding (and from what I have seen in the past) is that those usually disappear a day or two before the dance starts. Have any of you ever observed the dance beginning with fresh-date stamps still listed?
Thanks C
[edited by: crobb305 at 5:44 pm (utc) on April 5, 2003]
otnot
5:17 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
Hi: The links to Yahoo is still at 692,000.
skipfactor
5:26 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
I still see fresh-date stamps...Anyone observe differently?
I searched for "news" an hours ago and some news sites on 1st SERP page had April 3 tags (FOXnews), some had April 4 (CNN). Checked my humble site, all April 4 tags...
Checked "news" now, all April 4. Everflux?
madmatt69
5:49 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
For the first time in weeks Freshbot didn't visit my site last night...
ct2000
5:55 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
yep no freshbot for me today ... is it stiring .....
mbennie
6:02 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
Last freshbot visit on any of my sites = 4/4 3:57am PST
skipfactor
6:04 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
same here, nightly for weeks, no freshbot last night :)
ircgeeks
6:16 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
<script language="hangover">
Well we defiantly had some strange Everflux’s last night (either that or I was so drunk I was seeing things) 8 datacenters produced three different results. None of them positive for me :\ Thing’s seem to have stabled out some this morning. No freshbot for me in the past 24 hour’s. Sunday works well, analyzing the availed data I would give Sunday a 90%.
</Aspirin>
troels nybo nielsen
6:21 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
Welcome to WebmasterWorld, ircgeeks
Perhaps you should go to bed now so that you are ready for the dance tomorrow?
Jesse_Smith
6:48 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
I last got it at 04/04/03 04:40:59 PST, about 30 hours ago. before that I was geting him everyday, except of course right before the dance starts. *Hopes it dances tomarrow, but will still be happy if it dances now.*
dogboy
4:35 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
I saw different results on www3 this morning so we might not be far away.... good luck
garylo
4:37 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
So what?
Pegasus
4:37 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
You saw a number of Yahoo backlinks that wasn't 692,000, right?
dogboy
4:47 pm on Apr 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
yeah.... and others
...you know, I didn't see that other thread on 'Cassandra'. (hell, I didn't even know you were naming updates now) ...so this post should be moved there.... it's a good idea to keep all the chatter in one thread... I just didn't catch the title....any mods out there can move this thread to:
