Hey moderators, let me know if there's any way to lock this thread for a while so that only I can post in it. That would let me put out a few posts that won't get lost in the Bourbon shuffle. I think maybe WebGuerrilla set it up last time?
GoogleGuy
12:17 am on Jun 7, 2005 (gmt 0)
Okay, a bunch of reinclusions (and the responses to some spam complaints) went out today, along with some improvements to one of the first two things that went out with Bourbon. I also believe that we completed a binary push this weekend that has hooks for the last part of Bourbon. We'll turn on one datacenter, and then the rest of the datacenters over the course of the next week or so. After the other changes that went out, this last change should be less noticeable. In a few days, I'll post a way to give feedback, but feel free to use the the spam report form at [google.com...] in the mean time if you want to mention spam that you see in the results. I'd use the keyword "bourbon" if you do decide to use that form, so that we can separate those reports out.
GoogleGuy
8:54 pm on Jun 10, 2005 (gmt 0)
I just found out something about reinclusion requests. If you send in a reinclusion request, you'll get an automatic reply with a tracking number in the subject. For best results, if you need to discuss that site in the future, it's best to reply to that email instead of mailing with new messages. Replying to the message keeps the same tracking number, so that the person who evaluates the site for reinclusion will get the complete correspondence about your site. If you send lots of disconnected emails so that you've got lots of different tracking numbers, the person who is evaluating the site for reinclusion won't have the fullest picture available to them. Just a tip for anyone who is doing a reinclusion request.
GoogleGuy
12:22 am on Jun 21, 2005 (gmt 0)
Where was I? Ah, I just saw that Australian users aren't seeing PageRank. Do not panic! We're just testing something. You'll probably see PageRank again in a while after we're done testing..
