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Thus it was, googlebot crawled and crawled, and didn't bother to check and see how full the DC was, and it tried to put one more link in there, and ...
Ka-BOOOOOoooom!
It was so loud, it could be heard for miles.
During the aftermath, it rained links for weeks.
Links where everywhere, all in the neighbor's yards, they clogged the streets, fields and pastures all around the city were littered with countless links, it was a mess!
lol
also:
URLs with affiliate IDs at the end rank very well sending the pages without IDs to hell by duplicate content penalty.
Apart from that, the results do not differ much from the present ones for me.
Nope - one inner page with affiliate stuff and the rest is business/tech news (real written articles, not external feeds or scraped content).
I'm sure GG won't take any notice of my bleating anyway, and if there is to be a big index update, it won't happen until Google are good and ready.
As for end results, still: Way to many quality niche sites still not showing ... in fact, a bit worse in that DC right now than the Jagger SERP's (can't tell if it's spam filters taking out too many innocents, or issues related to Supplementals, or both; prolly both). And the geo stuff in some categories is a total mess.
Strange, its the 3e time that i see this.. the other times i just thougth that is was coincidence but's not!
Note ; im not clicking on my Own SERP but google hits my website....
By the way, nice christmas and happy update!
15,710,000,000 Currently for a search for: http
The test DC size is shrinking. They must be applying filters of some sort.
15,710,000,000 Currently for a search for: http
A search for "the" shows 23 billions results in test DC, think google is becoming huge, Normal DCs show only around 10 billion results for the search "the"
Probably that is why matt named forthcoming update big daddy
Big index = Big daddy
A bit old news as on google's page "According to our internal testing, our newly expanded search index is more than three times larger than that of any other search engine. "
Yahoo claims to have 19 billion web documents, it seems now google atleast has 23 billions web documents.
Zero supplemental improvement; probably a major negative as they seem to have many more "hidden" results (showing 401-429 of about 450).
Lots of affiliate tagged pages instead of canonical pages.
301s of supplemetals still not being obeyed.
Lots of other bizarre canonical problems, like site.com/ ranking with site.com/index indented.
Results moving around really seems pointless unless there is some progress on fundamental problems where pages are obviously not ranked properly.
For all their enhanced technical and algorythmic sophistication in recent years, IMO, their SERP's were better in 2002 than they are today. As BT noted in his robots blog recently (though the comment referred to Y! I think it applies to G too), a bit more back to basics, including "raising the relevance in the algo of kw's in titles, paths, and domain names"...might actually work wonders.
Me thinks the remote war on spam has been far, far too costly at home.
Never before have I so often defaulted to other SE's when all I want is simple, straightforward results. :/
Back to watching
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Edited to add,
Sorry, after re-reading the thread, and looking closer at the Serps. I guess I must be wrong, I did not realize reporting a change on a single dc, is an update. I would not consider the changes of the Serps on that DC as an improvement in quality of results.
