The Google Directory just updated!

I can't believe my eyes...

[steveb]

And up to date as of the last dump too it appears.

[alansk]

Just wondering... in the google directory listings, does the PR bar for a site update as frequently as the toolbar PR for that site?

[Alternative Future]

I have a site showing a PR of 3 in the ex directory which has been a PR of 5 (And still showing 5 in the ToolBar) since as far back as I can remember being informed of the ToolBar (late 2002).

My question is why is it shown as 3 when it has displayed 5 in both the toolbar and directory for the last several months and still continues to display 5 in the toolbar, is this a bug or something?

Many thanks,

-gs

[EliteWeb]

I see it updated on my toolbar now for one of my sites. Also the SERPs show it in a directory. Using default, non modded servers.

Don't know if its all done, for instance one of my sites that has been in the rdf forever hasnt shown up in the google directory or toolbar. Been in dmoz almost a year and not in the google directory :P

[g1smd]

I see that the directory-in consistently uses the old directory listings, the update was only there for a few hours on Sunday before reverting to the old version.

However, I also see that directory-va and directory-dc now also both have the updated information matching that that has already been in directory-ex for the last few days.

[kaled]

Bored. Tried directory-ex. Imagine my surprise when it showed old results. I kid you not - you could have knocked me down with a bowling ball.

Kaled.

[coosblues]

Finally - took close to two years to get into the ODP and it appears it was in the nick of time. Nice to see my site listed in the Gdirectory. It does appear that patience and a lot of blood, sweat, and yes, tears have not all been in vain.

[Dave_Hawley]

The categories I watch were updated yesterday, now they are back to being 12 months old. I'm starting think the ODP volunteers also update the Google mirror :o)

Dave

[g1smd]

The new version is now only showing on directory-ex and directory-dc.

It looks like both directory-va and directory-in have the old version at the moment.

[nakulgoyal]

I see all my websites there along with the ones for which I did a URL change. For me everything seems fine!

is it for some categories or some trouble of the RDF Dumps?

[mmdesign]

Good Bump. It appears that the directory is now back again on www, after having reverted during the Florida update. Why on earth did they revert? G knows.

[AjiNIMC]

I everything stable now, or still some shocks are left.

I have moved from #55 to #113
and #88 to #642.

Aji

[Trodda]

I'm still seeing fluctuations btw old and new. No updates in SERPS either.

[mmdesign]

Troda, you are right. It is still fluctuating on www.

[waynet]

Is it me, or the google directory search results are the same as the web results? I haven't checked that much but it seems like it has been like this for a few days at least.

[AjiNIMC]

Good thing is I got a PR hike, from pr 2 to pr 6. Some goody for me atleast.

Still waiting for a stable world.

[willybfriendly]

Odd result on the Directory. Search directory for 'widgets' and the cat returned is not the expected Business -> Industries ->...->Widgets, but rather the lower level, i.e. Business -> Industries ->...->Widgets->Widget Producers

Likewise, a search for 'widget' returns Business -> Industries ->...->Widgets->Widget Associations

A directory search for 'widget information' gives the cat Regional > South America > ... > Travel Information (The widget in question has nothing to do with travel!)

Also, it appears to me that two versions of the Directory are being used. I can drill down to my site manually, but it does not appear in the cat returned with a search for my site, ie search for 'my company name' returns a Directory cat at #4, but when clicked on my site does not show in the cat.

Is anyone else seeing similar anomalies?

WBF

[bender]

does anyone know how long it takes google in general to update the fresh directory also in the search results (the cat-links under each result)?

thx

[steveb]

bender, there is no generic answer to that. It could happen today, it could be weeks.

[ogletree]

I hope that is not true it shows my PR as PR1. Toolbar still shows a PR6. I have been falling on and off the directorys lately. I will be high PR and then low PR depending on when I look.

[g1smd]

Google Directory results have changed again. Some datacentres are still showing old data, and some have new data. One datacentre with new data reverted to old data yesterday. One datacentre that wasn't responding last week, now has the "new" version in it.

Responses: -fi timeout; -in old; -va new; -ab old; -dc new; -cw new; -ex new; -zu NO; -sj NO; -mc NO; -kr NO; -gv NO.

(... where "new" is meaning "includes a cat added to dmoz.org in May, that then showed in Google SERPs in July, but only appeared in the Google Directory for the first time on November 2nd")

[synergy]

Just wondering... in the google directory listings, does the PR bar for a site update as frequently as the toolbar PR for that site?

I saw a PR7 showing for my site in the updated Google directory on some datacenters last Saturday. My site had a PR6 on the toolbar. Sure enough once PR updated on the toolbar this week, I was bumped up to PR7.

Not like PR matters anymore though.

[berli]

This is a stupid question, but . . .

How do you force Google to show you the new results? I went to www-ex.google.com and tried to access the directory using various methods, but no dice. It gave me what regular Google was serving up. (Which happened to be old data. Yuck.)

I actually saw the new results earlier this month (a friend excitedly showed them to me) and I was celebrating, blissfully unaware that the update hadn't moved to all datacenters.

Google must have serious problems distracting them (with the search algo/spam filters, I suspect) if they still haven't migrated the new directory to all servers.

[steveb]

http://directory-ex.google.com/

[g1smd]

Try that one and all of the other datacentres as listed in message #110 above, along with the new datacentre at -lm too.

[GreatVista]

directory-in has been updated.

[steveb]

I was about to say "great" but I see -ab still is showing the old directory. That looks to be the last holdout though.

[GreatVista]

-ab's been updated

[steveb]

About time. Now hopefully they will make a point to crawl the whole directory. Tons of pages are showing the old pages in cache, or 404 pages for categories that actually exist but have never been crawled (or were most recently crawled when -ab was the dominant datacenter). The linking and PR transfer is going to be often very inaccurate next update.

[zeus]

I have seen this change in the directory for maybe 3-4 weeks now, it changes all the time between two directories.

zeus

[g1smd]

Umm read back through the thread again. About 6 different datacentres have had different directory versions since 2003-11-02, gradually updating all to the new version but occasionally reverting to an older version.