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question?

[palourde]

Which was the longest duration for the dance until A present?

[John_Caius]

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Google has never said "there will be an update every x days" - so please stop stressing about it! There will be an update whenever they're ready - just not yet. :)

[tigger]

well said john

[takagi]

We update our index every four weeks.

see Google Information for Webmasters [google.com]

I don't see this quote

Google has never said "there will be an update every x days"

in that thread. But GoogleGuy did say something like more than 5 weeks should be no problem. Maybe G needs to change the '4 weeks' on their own page.

[Oaf357]

I don't see what everyone is so worried about. This gives people more time to improve and perfect their web sites so when the next update after this one finally goes through (after the deep crawl) we should all be way ahead of the game.

I am anxious don't get me wrong. But, I try to thing further ahead. Not making those little tweaks here and there and worrying about the update helps nothing. Perfect web sites shouldn't have to wait for Google. Google should want to have web sites in its index.

[jk3210]

>>Google has never said "there will be an update every x days" - so please stop stressing about it! There will be an update whenever they're ready - just not yet. :) <<

That wasn't the question he/she asked. The question was:

"Which was the longest duration for the dance until A present?"

Sounds like a simple, non-stressed question to me.

[korkus2000]

palourde, here is the google update history:
[webmasterworld.com...]

from what is in there the march 2002 update was the latest.

[atadams]

I posted this before last dance, and have updated it (BTW, I don't think this matters much, it will happen when it happens):

Days Between Updates

[i]Apr 08, 2003 - 33[/i]
Mar 06, 2003 - 40
Jan 25, 2003 - 24
Jan 01, 2003 - 35
Nov 27, 2002 - 27
Oct 31, 2002 - 35
Sep 26, 2002 - 36
Aug 21, 2002 - 27
Jul 25, 2002 - 32
Jun 23, 2002 - 30
May 24, 2002 - 29
Apr 25, 2002 - 19
Apr 06, 2002 - 45
Feb 20, 2002 - 26
Jan 25, 2002 - 29
Dec 27, 2001 - 32
Nov 25, 2001 - 28
Oct 28, 2001 - 42
Sep 16, 2001 - 28
Aug 19, 2001 - 31
Jul 19, 2001 - 27
Jun 22, 2001 - 32
May 21, 2001 - 28
Apr 23, 2001 - 28
Mar 26, 2001 - 35
Feb 19, 2001 - 29
Jan 21, 2001 - 33
Dec 19, 2000 - 31
Nov 18, 2000 - 27
Oct 22, 2000 - 54
Aug 29, 2000 - 34
Jul 26, 2000
 Mean (Avg) - 31.81
 Std Dev - 6.66

[ericjunior]

atadams - nice one - and the average is over 38 days - puts the current 33+ into prospective!

[Oaf357]

Very helpful indeed. Now if only more people knew the average there wouldn't be quite as many "when" questions.

[suggy]

Sorry to be a pain / pedantic eric junior, but actually:

The average is 31.8 and the std dev is 6.55 - as atadams' original post shows.

This means that the current 33 days is the wrong side of average / mean - or 50% of updates!

Basically, if it happens on/ before the 38th day it will be in the same ball park as 68% of updates.

After that, if it hasn't happened by the 45th day, it will be queuing outside the ballpark looking in at the other 95% of updates!

Hope this makes any sense!

(Nervous) Suggy

[Oaf357]

I have seen the light!

[John_Caius]

takagi - "Google has never said there will be an update every x days" is attributable to me, not that thread. I was directing palourde to Googleguy's comment about updates taking three months at a time some years ago. But I grant that I hadn't noticed that sentence in the Google info for webmasters. Seems to me that the word "approximately" might be a useful addition... :)

[takagi]

Never mind John_Caius, most of us will agree that a good SERP for the user is more important than a fixed update schedule. BTW, I just found on the Google site:

Each time we update our database of web page (about once a month) .. [google.com]
and
Google's index is updated approximately once a month [google.com]