Update Saga. Part 5

[Brett_Tabke]

What say you?

Over and done with?

All done all through?

[2by4]

see how the graphs dip at the same time as hurrican rita.... [cnn.com]. All the graphs. Contrary to what some believe, things outside of the web actually exist and influence things. Reminds me of the guy who posted about why traffic was down during hurricane katrina

[linkjack]

You know, that seems to be an important point.

Nobody seems to look for news during hurricanes so it's just normal that traffic on such portals should drop during tough times.

[theBear]

Couldn't prove it by abc,nbc,cbs, or msnbc

[Ankhenaton]

Couldn't prove it by abc,nbc,cbs, or msnbc

I would assume people would revert in intense crisis to news channels they trust more and that are primary sources and not secondary.

Heard it on Yahoo or BBC, BBC would still be more credible. Maybe I am getting old :¦ ;)

[theBear]

You would then be surprised about the lack of said massive drop on Yahoo for the August 29 event in New Orleans call Katrina, yes ¦ no?

[2by4]

No, I wouldn't be. Because of katrina, and the devastation, when rita came, there were massive evacuations, big chunk of texas evacuated. Plus I think the evacuation area was much wider than with katrina if I remember right. Plus Texas is just a big place, big cities, more key to economy than NO, which is pretty poor overall. I don't want to stereotype our friends in Miss and LA, but... those are't places I think of when I think tech / web centers. And Atlanta didn't evacuate.

The dip was very clear, exactly on rita, dip on msn, yahoo, and google.

Usually this stuff is really hard to get figured out, that wasn't one of the things though, if this was jagger related then why would all 3 search engines dip at the same time, september 21 ish? Recall that Rita was cat 5 before it landed. People left, they'd just seen what happened when people didn't leave.

And as you note, the news sites didn't dip, which I'd also expect, since more people are logging in for news, so the regional absence + more other views equals no real change.

[Ankhenaton]

You would then be surprised about the lack of said massive drop on Yahoo for the August 29 event in New Orleans call Katrina, yes ¦ no?

You are not expecting me to actually look at the data before throwing out a hypothesis..? :\ ;)

[Ankhenaton]

And as you note, the news sites didn't dip, which I'd also expect, since more people are logging in for news, so the regional absence + more other views equals no real change.

Exactly you have to offset the people who couldn't look at any news channels vs the ones that were extra viewers in other regions. :)

[reseller]

Good morning Folks

Back to Update Jagger :-)

I see that Jagger3 hasn't left the same 4 DCs untill now. It was supposed to migrate to the other DCs this week.

66.102.9.99
66.102.9.104

66.102.11.99
66.102.11.104

Any of you have noticed something else?

[followgreg]

Nope Buddy no change at all.

Any clue what they are waiting for? Still testing, reviewing spam reports.

One thing new though - Googlebot seems to eat up Javascripts!

Not sure what it means but we might be onto surprises soon.

Well, actually it's not the first time it was reported but for some reason it seems to target .js on specific crawls.