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A dance would have the new index propagate from 1 data center to another continuosly and would end in around 5 days.
But 'Dominic' is different. The index is new in SJ and FI. And that's it, they are still testing and testing and testing. No red button has been hit anyway, just some testing on SJ.
Directing www2 and www3 to SJ datacenter is to seek for feedbacks regarding their 'new index' especially from posts in webmasterworld.
"This is not a dance"
Thank You
The updates of late have had an interval of around 36-38 days between them and so I sould say there is still a good 15 days to go before any dance should happen. This is of course on the assumption that all the tests Google have been doing of late "emphasis on the tests" are or are not meant to make the update process much similar and therefore there maybe bi-monthly updates to help Google because the database is soo damn big.
As you probably noticed there are lots of posts like "my competitor is still cheating" and "I did this, is it dangerous?".
As filters are applied in sequence they can monitor everyone of them based on our feedback.
This is jus an opinion, not a conspiracy theory :)
The world has changed and you have missed the point.
Do your own research.
Chris_D
Fwiw, if I go by this thread:
[webmasterworld.com ]
The world hasn't changed at all. Their plans may have, and we've gotten a peek into their world.
not a problem with the change, just seems the rollout of the change has, well, changed!
Feedbacks are important. Feedback are golds! And we produce golds for Google. That's why we are here at webmasterworld.
1) We've been watching something never seen before - the entire pre-dance (or most of it anyway). The real dance has not begun yet.
2) The latest algorythms certainly appear to be different. G is (apparently) using Feb index on which to do it's testing ... and is (apparently) doing that tesing on -sj and -fi ... and the SERP's are not comparable to older SERP's (hence we're looking at new algo's).
3) When the new index is combined with the new algo's, THAT will be the result most likely to be pushed out to www.
4) Not sure when that will be, but if it's a month from the last update, could be expected to occur around 5/11. (I'm betting 5/12)
Now a question: We're staring to see some evidence that elements of the April crawl are being baked into results on -sj, -fi. Anyone else see that?
For three days my hits from Google skyrocketed, and now are back down to the level I got used to from the last dance. Did anyone else notice that things returned to normal for their site?
Since I don't make my living off this (though I keep my dog in kibble), I don't mind the drop-off and am enjoying watching the dance or lead-up to the dance and everyone's opinions on it. This is fun.
Thanks for the recap. I guess the change then is that "we get to watch".
(Not too shy are we, Google? :-o )
2) The latest algorythms certainly appear to be different. G is (apparently) using Feb index on which to do it's testing ... and is (apparently) doing that tesing on -sj and -fi ... and the SERP's are not comparable to older SERP's (hence we're looking at new algo's).
Not sure how then we'd even see the new algo, seeing as GG mentioned -sj has, for the most part, spam removal off and backlinks reduced (as evidenced by the wacked out pr when viewed thru -sj)
WRT new stuff on -sj:
Our serps still same as they were when this 'pre-dance' started
[edited by: mipapage at 5:10 pm (utc) on May 9, 2003]
Right, hard to know. What we're trying to do is think about where we were in Feb, then look at -sj and -fi, and get a sense for what might have changed at the Googleplex to produce these results...but that may be a fools game since we don't know with each passing day how much of the algo IS or IS NOT factored into what we're looking at.
Not that we even know what the algo looks like to begine with ;-)
One thing I can say; we're not getting overly excited about the ups or the downs right now. Google only knows what the real SERP's will soon look like...
furthermore as the days go on, and the iterations take place on sj/fi, those indexes seem to more and more resemble the current index.
so we still think the final form of sj/fi will become the next update, when their iterations are complete, and guess our results will land somewhere between what we are seeing now on sj/fi, and the current www. index (last months update).
of course some might get trapped in new spam filters supposedly being applied, fortunately we will should not be one of them.
lots of posts, lots of threads. however in the end it might all be about nothing much of a change. we're watching. like everybody else.
One highly search sensitive site had a two day spike.
Sunday and Monday were more than 10% higher this week than last week. Saturday was much lower.
Day of week
04/23/2003 to 04/30/2003
05/01/2003 to 05/08-2003
Friday
3632
3293
Saturday
3748
3014
Sunday
3171
3522
Monday
4017
4445
Tuesday
4154
4147
Wednesday
3999
4025
Thursday
3780
3895
I think that means the new index is on WWW2 ... can't comment on new algorithm, except that some of my older pages have gone from 8th to 30th place. Not good ... I think low PR may be my problem there.
