Update Saga. Part 5

[Brett_Tabke]

What say you?

Over and done with?

All done all through?

[dfre]

Does anybody think that the press should hear about this constant flux and panic that is sweeping through our world?

If its not big enough for the press to notice, then why would they care?

[colin_h]

Maybe they are watching this forum ;-o

[taps]

this morning in the local newspaper office:

Jeff: "John, what about that: 'Webmasters are complaining about Google-Update'"

John: "What's a Webmaster?"

Jeff: "Gimme a second"
<Jeff opens a browser, enters www.google.com and searches for 'webmaster'...>

Jeff: "Google says, it's a guy named Tabke - he owns a whole Webmaster World. Ain't Google a great tool?"

John: "So what are those people complaining about? They have their own world, they should stay there."

Jeff: "Ok, forget about that, John. How about 'man bytes dog'?"

[edit]typo[/edit]

[edited by: taps at 5:31 pm (utc) on Nov. 16, 2005]

[colin_h]

LOL

[Eazygoin]

IMO Google has the right to have a long update once in a while, to get its house in order,and make the index better.

Whether some people are doing better or worse, is a fact of life, when it comes to reindexing, and we all have to learn the lessons. In certain cases, the site perhaps should be indexed better, but perfection is hard to meet.

Overall, the index is still by far the best going, so why complain to the media? Apart from which, enough press and other media use computers, and can see everything related to the update.

As I see it, the 'world' index is almost finished being updated, give or take a bit of flux, and the regional/country indexes will follow soon. IMO Google is doing a great job.

[webdude]

Hey taps,

priceless

[TammyJo]

I am seeing much better results. Everything I am searching for I seem to be finding quickly within the first 3 listings (personal searches...not just the usual business searches). I haven't had to change search engines once today.
No spam yet....will keep looking though:)

Hopefully this one sticks for a while!

[McMohan]

taps, that was hilarious :)) Thanks.

[pizzaiolo]

"Anyone else observing large and sudden changes? "
Me! I moved to #1 out of 15.000.000 from #89 for my main subject.

[colin_h]

What about a story about a massive multi-national search engine that has spent the past 6 months trying to counter spammers that are making their engine virtually impotent. The problem is that over time every company with a website has started using the tricks of the spammers to help them compete in a vicious marketplace. So, obviously, when the Search Engine starts cleaning house it realises that the results are no better than 6 months ago.

Then there's the 'Google Guy', a mysterious sort who has been sent down from Google HQ (Supposedly) to walk amongst the common people ... a messiah if you like. He has his band of faithful disciples, who give snippets of information to the gradually growing listeners ... desperate to hear news of their salvation. The favoured forum have been given direct access to Google and they can block the common peoples access to heaven by use of the mystical report page ... and some of them are having a field day reporting anything that gets in their way (Hey let's report them and see if Google can find something to penalise them for).

And then there's the crunch ... that it's nothing but a way of boosting interest in a flagging industry. I mean, who uses a search engine to look for services anymore? Only first timers and webmasters & the first timers soon realise that it's all spam and head off to Amazon or Ebay etc.

There's a big story here ... it just takes time to tie up the ends ;-)