Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Reseller,
Having looked at these dc's in some detail, I have to disagree with you (tho glad you're making a comback!).
Because of major changes to a site I have in the OCT-FEB period, I can pinpoint the vintage of the index quite easily (and confirm the site specific results with others I am familiar with). What I see on these dc's is an index made up of ancient results (circa AUG 2005) with some additions from FEB or so.
If this truly is the result of the carnage of the switch to BD then Google has accomplished nothing in the FEB-15 to current timeframe.
If as you say, Google knows exactly what they're doing, what they are apparently trying to achieve is to augment the AUG-05 index with a few new pages. If you mean Google intended to "break down" the entire index and rebuild it "live" - unlike in the past where more or less finished updates rolled onto all dc's over a 5-7 day period - then I might agree. What I can't see is the reseller frindly ® dc's being anything but yet another interim step. The difference is, I see the process as scambling to try and fix an unanticipated scru-up, you see it as an deliberate plan.
Either way, I'm counting the days until Microsoft rolls out their new product as Google is ripe for the taking ... takes awhile for the public to turn against a SE but there certianly is precedent (remember when you couldn't turn on your TV without seeing ads for Lycos?).
From a webmaster point of view, the ideal world is MSN, Google, Yahoo with 30% market share each.
[edited by: tedster at 10:32 pm (utc) on April 6, 2006]
You may be onto something regarding the link age filter giving a bit more weight to the authority sites, but it could also be that as a lot of authority sites had pages going supplemental some of them now returning, it could be that the internal links from them are now starting to come into the index hence pushing the authority pages.
Of course anything COULD change at any moment but its a certain improvement over the previous few weeks in the sectors we watch.
So just maybe things are on the up? mind you i shouldnt tempt faith they will probably F'ck it up again by next week!
More like almost 18 months, and still no sign of a fix.
Yes, I was probably being generous with the 60 weeks.
Hmmmz - "no sign of a fix" - perhaps some - but no fix which is the worrying thing after all this time and infastructure change.
No I felt it in spades from September to March when it killed my peak season.
But I DO think this past 7 weeks or so has been among the worst public failures I have seem with Google (being unable to reconcile the AUG index they used to test BD with the current index without turning half the index supplemental and repeatedly appearing to fail).
I mean regardless of how well/badly me or anyone else is doing, the Google results are cr@p.
Of course there are DCs that don't look very pretty. However, there are some encouraging signs on few of the DCs. For example I see here more relevant sites for my test search query
[64.233.171.99...]
[64.233.171.104...]
[64.233.185.99...]
[64.233.185.104...]
I wish to see the data of such DCs migrate to the rest. Maybe that is exactly what will happen, who knows ;-)
"these seem to me slightly old, reseller ;-)"
I'm slightly old too, ya know. Maybe thats why I like them :-)
Don't know if anyone saw this overnight, but one of my "barometer" sites (www.cnn.com) lost 1.1 million indexed pages ... However, as of 15 minutes ago, they have gotten 500,000 of them back ... WOW!
