Spacey - MC just answered your question in his blog comments:
J3 has less to do with spam and more to do with general indexing. It’s hard for me to estimate how it might affect your site without knowing any specifics...
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Sounds scary to me!
petehall
11:33 am on Nov 3, 2005 (gmt 0)
Seriously though, the correct place to report specifics is using the keyword jagger2 (we're still in part 2) on the spam report form at [google.com...]
Put Jagger2 in the additional notes box?
What if there are notes to add too?
Dayo_UK
11:34 am on Nov 3, 2005 (gmt 0)
Lol - great minds read Matts blog and post alike ;)
spaceylacie
11:35 am on Nov 3, 2005 (gmt 0)
Oh, thanks, I checked his blog earlier and didn't see that.
*SIGH* I guess I'll be getting some work done today after all.
Dayo_UK
11:36 am on Nov 3, 2005 (gmt 0)
>>>Sounds scary to me!
Sounds exciting to me :)
petehall
11:41 am on Nov 3, 2005 (gmt 0)
>>>Sounds scary to me! Sounds exciting to me :)
I now think the results everyone was complaining about on a small number of data centres was a preview of this new "ranking" :)
Oh dear.. if I'm right there's going to be a few unhappy webmasters in the world.
[edited by: petehall at 11:43 am (utc) on Nov. 3, 2005]
blaggard
11:42 am on Nov 3, 2005 (gmt 0)
Personally I am glad to see the outing of blatant spam sites here, even against TOS in this case and good to see GG taking obvious interest.
66.102.11.99 not sure I want those results but can live with them :)
AlexK
11:43 am on Nov 3, 2005 (gmt 0)
I want to know how on earth a page which mentions a keyword ONCE at the top of a page gets to the #2 position in the SERPs (every single DC), yet has nothing to do with the keyword.
That is good search?
Dayo_UK
11:46 am on Nov 3, 2005 (gmt 0)
AlexK
Not a very competive term and only very very few in an allintitle:keyword search - even less if you exclude supplementals. Title is still important in G. (and it is on a root page I guess)
petehall
11:58 am on Nov 3, 2005 (gmt 0)
I know for a fact those results were being used in the UK... I wonder if they were testing their impact or something.
Does anyone else think the removal of these results and then the sudden collapse of DC's is interesting? I think they may have been Jagger3, dispite information supplied.