July Update?

[Heywood_J]

Is it me or does it look like a significant update is going on at google. I am noticing a number of SERP changes for a few of my sites and they've been fluctuating for the past few days.

Anyone else noticing any major changes?

[my3cents]

LOL....

I have been looking at the first page for a couple of days and scratching my head, wondering how google could think a few of these sites belong in the top ten, while formitable competitors have been banished...

I just looked at the second page and had a good laugh...

#12 & #15 are 1KB blatant redirects to pages so far off topic they do not pertainn AT ALL. #17 is similar to searching for "tires" and finding a site about how writing JavaScript makes you tired....

LOL

This is so wrong... I really can't beleive this is what they intended to do... maybe they just want to ruin their stock so they can buy all they shares people dump, and then return to being "The King"

[edited by: my3cents at 8:01 am (utc) on July 16, 2004]

[steveb]

Well, just to be clear, I think a few datacenters are better, while a few are worse, while the majority are basically unchanged from recently... and results recently have been very good.

The datacenters are just sort of all over the board now.

Personally I think comparing these results is quite interesting, but I don't think there is any way to conclude (at least in my main areas) if the basic changes are good or bad... both good/bad are showing on different datacenters.

[my3cents]

hey steveb?

how can you say:

"I think a few datacenters are better, while a few are worse"

and then say:

"I don't think there is any way to conclude... if the basic changes are good or bad"

maybe I am suffering from sleep deprivation?

according to my understanding:

better=good
worse=bad

[steveb]

"maybe I am suffering from sleep deprivation?"

Uh, maybe. What can you possibly not understand?

<okay, maybe you don't know what a datacenter is>

[wellzy]

steveb

I agree. Some good/bad here also for my terms looking at the different datacenters.

wellzy

[Spica]

Searching for my favorite keywords, "blue widgets", I see a slight reshuffling of the major players on the first page, with an enhanced Florida flavor, and two newcomers: an Amazon.com page (grrr!) and a page about "nonblue widgets". Not an improvement in my opinion!

I have often noticed these non-keyword1 pages showing up for keyword1 searches. I don't understand why Google doesn't have an algo to eliminate these obviously undesirable pages from the top results.

[karmov]

Well from my perspective this is the end of the second week of a wierd shuffle in one of my SERPS that's not very competitive. I find it easy to monitor changes here since nobody in that particular SERP is working very hard to reach #1 so when things shift around, it's usually because G has tweaked its algo.

The top 10 has been shuffled like a deck of cards every 12-24 hours for the last 2 weeks for me. Today the SERP looks pretty much exactly the way it looked like before the shuffle ever began.

I would deffinitely not call this an "update" so far but there's been a heck of a lot of shuffling going around around. I'd heard before that G was going to move more towards frequent incremental tweaks over massive updates so this is probably what we're seeing.

[my3cents]

steveb, I understand that this is an international forum and that English may not be your first language, so to assist you:

good= Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor
[dictionary.reference.com...]

better= Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor
[dictionary.reference.com...]

bad= More inferior, as in quality, condition, or effect
[dictionary.reference.com...]

worse= Not measuring up to recognized standards of excellence, as of behavior or conduct
[dictionary.reference.com...]

[soapystar]

my3cents going for a dollars worth..:-)

[steveb]

my3cents, either get some sleep or get coherent.

If you don't know what a datacenter is, just ask.

Wondering how one thing can be good, while a completely different thing is bad... well, gee, here on Earth different things are... different.