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Yes. 100+ of my pure info sites gone from 1-5 positions to nowhere. All of them are travel related. No outbound links at all. No ads. Just some hotels description.
That's probably because we're seeing different results than the rest of you.
Only European regional Google giving me Austin results is google.co.uk, all the others give me SERPs similar to pre-Florida.
I might look a bit silly here but I thought there is no harm in posting this. Any help appreciated and thanks in advance.
Searching from .co.uk or .com gives the Austin results.
The point about the non-English datacentres is this:
I go to www.google.de and choose the search the web option. The results I get back are totally different from going to www.google.co.uk and choosing the search the web option. The same happens if I choose .fr or .it.
Now, in all cases I've asked Google to search the web, not restrict the search to pages from that region - so why is Google returning a different set of results when searhing the web from .co.uk when compared with searching the web from .de (.fr, .it etc)?
However, I am 99% sure that they are showing a *version* of an updated index.
And to me that version is a lot better and more relevant than the US Austin version. It looks pre-Florida.
Refreshing pages repeatedly and you can often go from one data set to another (and none of them are remotely pre-florida that I have seen).
[edited by: steveb at 2:07 pm (utc) on Jan. 27, 2004]
Those links to which you refer are choosing the "regional search" option. I'm not talking about that option - I'm talking about the "search the web option"
The "search the web" option from .de (.fr, .it) gives totally different results from the search the web option from .co.uk.
What you are talking about is just seeing the different Austin results. That is happening on Google.com too. In other words, they are all acting the same, dancing between a few groups of data.
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just ran through them all again. Search the web .it, .fr. .es showing the various Austin result groups. .de showing pre-Austin for me now, though it has been showing usually post-Austin since the update began. Perhaps somepeople somewhere are managing to get the pre-Austin stuff on a datacenter wherever they are geolocated, but that is just part of the normal datacenter updating/shifting.
If the sites that were at the top of the serps were good quality I would find it easier to live with but the sad fact is that they are not, a lot of them are just plain terrible and many are completely irrelevant. In my area some of the sites being returned at the top are on a different continent but they are large and they have loads of links.
.ca English is definitely showing Austin. I have one (English language) site which was 69th for a single keyword search (the site's name) in Florida. I've now got the number 1 position (yay!) for the English SERPS, and number 3 for the French results. Interestingly, the 1 and 2 spot on the French results are a French language site at no. 1, and a Swedish language site at no.2. Are Google filtering SERPS depending on your the language you choose to view the Google site? I have "search the web" selected, not "pages from Canada" or "Pages francophones".
Note, this is not a competitive keyword, with only 109000 results, so it may be all meaningless anyway!
Yep, perhaps we are seeing different things.
I just checked fr,es,it and de again - these datacentres all match on all the web search.
.com and .co.uk, .co.nz, ca (english language) also all match each other - but they are different from the non-english language results.
[edited by: Dayo_UK at 2:20 pm (utc) on Jan. 27, 2004]
So to answer Brett's question: "Ready to call it done?"
Nope.
Something's up because normally it does not take this long for an update to hit our neck of the woods. And besides, the results aren't even pre-Austin, they're pre-Florida. So we're not talking about a slow update from Florida to Austin.
I think we are all seeing different things, and since the datacenters are not as easy to check via one look now that makes it confusing since .de for example depending where you are could be being fed by several datacenters.
Anyway, personally I have seen at least four versions of Austin results for web search on .fr, .it, .es, .com and .de for two days. From here, only .de has ever slopped back to pre-Austin.
I have noticed almost all my sites have come back and are doing amazing in these foreign googles...
What are the chances these results will migrate to www?
Search keyword phrase: web site positioning
The first two results on G are not even closely related to what people would be looking for. GPS Sites? I don't think so.....
the quality of the index is no back to where it was
