The update ain't over...

or is it?

[theposter]

So the update is over?. This just doesn't make any sense to me...

Whats going on here?. I know that w1,w2 and w3 are showing the same results, but the german index has been showing different results for 36 hours now. That is way too long for google to refresh databases all over the world.

I tried a google dance check on this french site as well, don't remember the url and guess what, i saw the same results as seen on the de servers. Please explain.

[edited by: heini at 7:12 am (utc) on Sep. 30, 2002]
[edit reason] no urls please / thanks [/edit]

[heini]

I suppose french and german results you were seeing were fed from the same datacenter, which at that time lagged behind. Happened before.

[Grumpus]

Looks to me like there will still be some shifting, though I'd say most of it's done. I say this because as the dance nears a close, and you look at the rankings of your own pages amongst themselves (do a =site:www.yoursite.com "yoursite"= search - or any word that appears on all your pages that you can use as a test seed) and the rankings are still a little fishy. This seems to happen (for my site, at least) each month near the end of the dance - everything is in there, but things need to move up and down appropriately.

You'll also see (during this last phase, normally) that in serps where you have "MORE RESULTS FROM THIS SITE" links that the most relevant isn't the one on top, but it always seems to sort itself out by the end.

G.