no freshbot tags for 12+ hours on any site

last two Feb updates were around the 20th

[amznVibe]

anyone holding their breath? has it begun?
I don't see fresh tags on any listings
[google.com...]

last two February dances were around the 20th
[webmasterworld.com...]

[Laurel]

I don't know if it has begun, but I am holding my breath!

Tomorrow would be nice. :-)

anyone know what time of day they start?

[aka ferrari360]

I've had freshbot hit a tonne of sites I look after today... I have a "feeling" that its looking for last minute changes before the update begins. Of course it could just be paranoia :)

[Pegasus]

I can't wait :P

This month, I redid my dmoz description.

My site deals with Adobe PhotoShop, web design, and graphic design. I also have some free website templates.

I don't think I had any of those terms in my Dmoz description, so I'll be very interested to see what effect it has. :)

[johnraphone]

Yes, its felling like its going to happen soon, hopefully real soon. I got 3 domain names about to sign on and I can't wait to see how well they do. :)

[amznVibe]

something might be happening, unless this is "everflux"

use your favorite google dance website to check keywords
like "black" or "white" and when look down listings around 35-40

www-ex www-sj www-zu are all out of sync

[Jesse_Smith]

That's weird! No 'fresh date' is listed, yet my 60 or so links that have been in for over a week ONLY because if the freshbot, have no date under them! Is it normal for the dates to go away just before they dance?

[Pegasus]

I've looked at them before, and I know they're different versions of Google (or the Google Directory), but what do "sj" and "ex" and "zu" stand for?

[Crush]

I am getting that update feeeling as well. Been quiet for 24 hours or so. No fresh tag.

I am leaving to Berlin for the weekend. It always happens when I am away from a computer to spoil my weekend ;)

[amznVibe]

still no fresh tags, 24+ hours ...
wonder if they are going to get around to incorporating their 5 month old directory with dmoz on this pass...

[troels nybo nielsen]

> Is it normal for the dates to go away just before they dance?

Yes it is. But they may disappear of other reasons too!

> what do "sj" and "ex" and "zu" stand for?

Not sure, but I seem to remember that those letters are extracted from the names of the places where these datacenters are situated.

[rfgdxm1]

Right. I've noticed fresh tags usually diappear before the dance. However, this also seems to happen periodically for whatever other reasons.

[amznVibe]

the known google datacenters are:

www-ex.google.com 216.239.33.100  
www-sj.google.com 216.239.35.100  
www-va.google.com 216.239.37.100  
www-dc.google.com 216.239.39.100  
www-ab.google.com 216.239.51.100  
www-in.google.com 216.239.53.100  
www-zu.google.com 216.239.55.100  
www-cw.google.com 216.239.57.100

these addresses seem to resolve slightly differently as well
www.google.de
www.google.fr
www.google.ca
www.google.co.uk
www.google.it

[Stefan]

It's starting to seem like it was during the last few days before the last update, similar tag and bot activity...

I'm ready, push the button GG.

[troels nybo nielsen]

Say it in French, Stefan. Remember?

[Stefan]

Poussez le bouton rouge, GG.

Let's hope.... It worked last time :-)

[edited by: Stefan at 11:15 pm (utc) on Feb. 21, 2003]

[amznVibe]

push it, push it ;) [turnofftheinternet.com]

[mike22]

"This month, I redid my dmoz description."

...does a high DMOZ ranking affect your google rank? Our site ranks #1 out of 228 result on DMOZ, but I have no reason to believe this benefits my google ranking.

[Jesse_Smith]

:::I don't see fresh tags on any listings

There back.
www.google.com/grphp?hl=en&ie=UTF-8 - 6k - Feb 21, 2003

[Pegasus]

I redid my Dmoz description so that words that were relevant to my site were in the desciption.

Hehe, when I was first starting, I got an email from a webby friend, saying "congratulations on getting into the ODP!" when I had actually just used a mass submission program, and had never heard of the ODP :)

Unsurprisingly, my description was small and irrelevant, so I freakin' changed it.

Your position in the directory is just another representation of your freakin' Google Pagerank. They don't affect each other, they're the same thing.