Waiting for the December Google Update and Crawl

[GoldenRanker]

Hey guys, I was just wondering when the next google webcrawl is going to occur or has it already passed?

Thanks for your help

[twin65]

mmmmmmm....nothing here (netherlands)

[rfgdxm1]

swizz, it isn't the cache, but your rankings in the SERPs. The Freshbot updates the home page of my main site *daily*. This is normal.

[swizz]

Thnx rfgdxm1 :)
I think we all just have to seat calm and wait until the beaver and his friends on google finish opening the gifts ...

[Kandevil]

Although not seeing any changes in actual results I am seeing changes in number of results returned, blaming that on the flux too.

Come on Google press that button! More excited about this than I was Christmas.

[twin65]

I`m sorry to dissappoint you guys, but i just had a message from that big, mean bear that his present is mine....

[taxpod]

Been seeing a steady 632 on all for many, many days. Anybody checking the serps and raising alarms is watching the wrong measure. Watch the 632 and when that moves on WWW3, Houston we'll have liftoff.

[spinoza]

Our little friends have opened their presents now.

[Total Paranoia]

I wonder what they got? The boxes look empty!

[chiyo]

OK iid join in.IId submit that the reason the bot likes holidays is not holidays per se, but that web traffic as a whole is slow and connections maybe faster. Given that, the whole period Xmas to 1st january is slow with relatively low traffic. If they crawled in the past few days, next months index will all be about Xmas! "Merry Xmas to all our visitors!" Any time in the next 5 days is what i say!

[coconutz]

I wonder what they got? The boxes look empty!

One more scene to go Google Holiday Logos [google.com]

[twin65]

they are giving it to eachother!

[gefilte]

The Little Webmaster:

Dance they told me - pa rum pum pum pum
A new update you see -pa rum pum pum pum
Though not much change it brings -pa rum pum pum pum
We should do other things
Yet we fray our nerves -pa rum pum pum pum
Til it comes

Mighty Google -pa rum pum pum pum
I have a webpage too -pa rum pum pum pum
I need the hits it brings -pa rum pum pum pum
I sweat the little things
Shall I pray to you -pa rum pum pum pum
Til it comes

Update started -pa rum pum pum pum
Like it does every time -pa rum pum pum pum
I wait all month for this -pa rum pum pum pum
I need a life you see
Then my PR changed -pa rum pum pum pum
Thank G-d it's come

Copyright 2002 The Hoolinet

[Helpmebe1]

psstt... did you guys think Christmas was the only time for presents? Did you forget about New Years presents? :)
Bob.. put 30 on the 31st please...

Chris

[Anon27]

Three kings day, which is bigger than Christmas in most Latin countries, is Jan 6. Ouch, that would hurt...

[PFOnline]

HEY! They opened the presents! look: [google.com...]

[PFOnline]

But my prediction was wrong :( That the update would begin when they fully opened the presents.

[Beachboy]

Awwwww. So cute. GoogleGuy: Red button.

[darnbarn]

Just an observation:

The bear got a bowl of honey
The Rabit got ear muffs
The beaver got a toothbrush
The penguin... looks like he just made a bow tie out of the bow and ribon that was around the box?

I think the penguin got the raw end of the deal.

lol, just killing time waiting for a different number than 632,000

[Helpmebe1]

I am with the penguin.. he rocks! :)

[coconutz]

>>The penguin... looks like he just made a bow tie out of the bow and ribon that was around the box?

The box has my shiny new PR8 in it :)

[twin65]

i`m looking at the scene right now......i guess we`re not invited...

[creative craig]

Can I just ask, do we have confirmation from some one in the know (GG) that the big red button is in fact red?

Craig

[Zapatista]

Speaking on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Defense Department, and the Association of Google Obsessed Webmasters, we can neither confirm nor deny the existance of a red button which begins the update.

The Truth is Out There

<Insert X-Files theme music here>

[Monkscuba]

Come on, Come on... (drumming fingers impatiently)
Get on with it. Christmas is over. Time to update.
Give us some excitement in that black hole of a week between the 25th and the 31st.

Maybe it'll start when the bear has eaten all the honey?

[creative craig]

Has anyone talked to the pigeons? :)

[google.com...]

[Hagstrom]

>> I think the penguin got the raw end of the deal.

They seem to have made a lot of deals :o

On the fourth picture the beaver takes the green box, then it turns blue - and then green again.
The penguin takes a small yellow box (not the big yellow box on picture 1) - then it turns white (the box - not the penguin).

<sigh>When will the update begin? </sigh>

[twin65]

>>Can I just ask, do we have confirmation from some one in the know (GG) that the big red button is in fact red?<<

there are 2 buttons in the buttonroom: one is for " start update database" and the other one is for "skipping the update until next month"

mata hari

[aus_dave]

Hagstrom you are very observant - I think we all get too focussed at this time of the month! ;)

Maybe the rabbit unwrapped his present and said 'Hey beaver, your teeth are even bigger than mine - want to swap, my toothbrush for those earmuffs?'.

Well done to the Google Art Department - keeping us entertained!

Still waiting - it will happen while I'm asleep, I bet :).

[kfander]

I've been seeing changes between www and www2/www3 for the past couple of days. Nothing dramatic (other than one of my sites dropping from the first page of www for a couple of hours yesterday), but this is the sort of thing that I always see just before the dance becomes official.

[kevinpate]

does the penguin gettin a red bowtie mean the dance is only a semi-formal this timea round?