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Some think an update is in the wind - are people expecting big, possibly bad for some, changes?
It's too quiet out there.
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GG reckons that as a result of index pages being reported as playing appear after refresh games etc last time - he only received three spam reports with example sites!
I reckon they realise now though that it's borke - they'll have to investigate it and fix it Googlewide or else it's the kind of thing that could get much much worse at a later date and put them into a disaster scenario.
Sounds more like your sites are dropping in and out of the indes totally on a daily basis! Ouch!
Ranking #2 is a CNN article describing a legal battle about a widget store suing another company. Why is it so relevant to earn 2nd place?
Ranking #3 seems to show one URL having hijacked another domain. The listing shows one domain (which is irrelevant to the search term) but the cache shows metatags and content for a completely different domain.
Ranking #5 seems to be an example of cloaking, because the cached page contains 100% keyword stuffing whereas the actual link leads to a completely different page.
Ranking #8 is another news article about a widgets retailer changing careers.
Meanwhile, all the commercial widget sites (which you'd expect to find if searching for "widget store") have either fallen drastically in rankings or disappeared altogether.
Which leads to another important question: why are spam sites and/or irrelevant sites allowed to appear in the public datacenters for such long periods of time? What happened to the good old days when spam sites only appeared in www2 and www3 during the Google Dance, and then got filtered out before the new index propagated to the other datacenters?
The top serps for my competitive keywords are filled by irrelevant internal pages, and all the main commercial sites that used to fill the top 10 places have taken a drastic drop in rankings.
Stuart
So come on Google lets get the rest finished /fixed
Has anybody seen their Backlinks & PR change or just the Backlinks?
Question is why has it taken so long if Google was or is supposed to be updating on the Fly!
Or was this more like a Traditional update where they have been out collecting and collecting and then just pushing out the changes out every 4 to 6 weeks?
But i really do hope this a sign of things to come and we can really see if the changes we make to our sites count or not.
GG reckons that as a result of index pages being reported as playing appear after refresh games etc last time - he only received three spam reports with example sites!
That's ridiculous. At the very least, I offered to provide more examples. Not only in my spam report, but here on WW. Plus, there were a lot more people than 3 who were saying things like 'spam report sent'.
This is affecting a heck of a lot more than 3 sites, if GG didn't get enough examples to work with, all he has to do is say so and I'll be happy to oblige. I'm sure others will as well.
Could you imagine if highway builders had to pay Rand McNally to get in the overwhelming majority of the country's maps and atlases?
The Internet is too valuable to our society, our economy and our culture to be so ill served.
Like the Amazon page flood, the missing index problem also seems to be being greeted with apparent indifference from Google. It's as though they simply don't care: and if that is the case... misguided or arrogant, make your own mind up.
This isn't good at all: the mood at WebmasterWorld today often reflects the mood in the public arena tomorrow. This isn't a vacuum. The public WILL notice missing sites, Amazon right left and center, and general instability. When they do, many will start to look elsewhere for a better search experience.
I can't help but wonder what exactly is going on within Google. The attitude seems to have changed, the pride in the returns reduced.... it's road they may well end up regretting.
I think GoogleGuy should be giving more, asking less.
Could you imagine if highway builders had to pay Rand McNally to get in the overwhelming majority of the country's maps and atlases?
Could you imagine what libraries would be like if the Dewey decimal system was run by a for-profit company that used secret listing criteria, which were subject to frequent arbitrary and capricious changes?
And in order to boost its bottom line, took payments from publishers to feature some books at the expense of others? This is crazy.
I know he did. I sent him one already. I'll send more if he says he needs more. It shouldn't take seeing every affected site to figure out the problem, but if he needs more, I'm glad to oblige. It would be nice to hear SOMETHING about it from him though.
I'm finally seeing the strange results others are talking about.
PDF files where they really shouldn't be, flucating serps on refresh, etc...
I guess someone at the Googleplex is not done tweaking that darn knob!
