The New Google?

[aek]

1. The continuous google update has began and there will be no more monthly updates.

2. Pagerank is all but finished, and in the next toolbar update it will be removed.

3. Incoming links will be changed once in a while but will have no affect on the SERP's due to no.1

What does everyone think to 1,2 and 3?
Yes, No or maybe?

[aaronjf]

I personally don't think that the monthly deep crawls are done for. IMHO Google has merely sped up and slightly altered the freshbot - steroids.

When giving a site a complete overhaul - lets say you are stripping out all the tables and rebuilding the whole thing with CSS. You don't just do part of it and send it up. You send up a page or two, look at them, poke them, prod them, write down all the problems you seem cross browser and OS. Then you go back and rework it to get out all the bugs. Once you are done you launch the new version of your site. Now with that in mind; If you were giving your search engine a face lift or overhaul you would do the same thing.

I have a sneaking suspicion we will see a new deep crawl on or around August 15th.

[UK_Web_Guy]

aaronjf

A deep crawl around the 15th - but a proper update in the next 24 hours?

My guess is that we will be dancing in the next 24 hours - just like old times

[aaronjf]

Actually, a historically proper deep crawl would have happend this past week - last weekend of the month. A crawl in the next 24 would most likely end up on the 1st of the month.

I think mid month crawls are going to be the new thing. But, if I am wrong your guess is the most likely.

We'll have to wait and see.

[nonprof webguy]

The posts in this thread make me feel a little better. I have a homepage with 6PR and thousands of links to it, listing in DMOZ, etc. whose cache in Google is from before July 4th. We only update it two or three times a week, though. Then, there's my personal site's home page, with only 4PR and not many inbound links, but which I update a few times a day; I even programmed it to handle if-modified-since and all. But that site is also stuck in Google's cache from early July. It's mildly annoying, but since Googlebot gives my home page a high five every day, I'd kind hoped that they'd index it more than once every month. Oh well. At least now I see it's not only me!

[cyberprosper]

I think Google just took their deep crawl machines and turned them into the adsense machines. It was kind of crazy having 2 sets of servers doing the same job anyway.

Some of my sites have been "deep crawled" while others have not. As near as I can tell, there is no real reason one is crawled over the other.

My old optimization techniques are working again to a certain extent while newer techniques no longer work. I think they are just mixing everything up to keep everybody honest. The toolbar does not work anymore either. Sometimes it does, sometimes it just gives funky results.

I do notice, however, that link exchange sites... sites that do heavy exchanging of links using those third party services, are doing much better recently. I don't know what BS people were spewing before... Yeah, link pages may appear to have Zero PR in the toolbar, but I think that is just the appearance... they still have their original PR.

[g1smd]

Google has been in continuous update mode for many weeks. A search for "Anytown Widget Place" has slowly increased the number of results from the mid 90s to the mid 170s over the last 2 months, going up by 4 to 6 results extra in the list every few days. The datacentres vary by 3 or 4 in the number reported at any one time, but the general trend is usually upwards. There was one period where there was a sudden drop of 10% or more though, but restored a few days later.