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]
Since I have nothing to loose I have removed the product description from the product pages therefore eradicating the vast majority of my duplicate content. When the product pages are re-indexed I will tell you if there is any ranking change. Should be interesting either way :)
"Very dirty results. Time to do the laundry Google. Sort yourselves out."
What do you see when apply filter=0 on the same query?
Probably not, but a guy can dream....
Hi Folks
If what I see now on the DCs happened during April last year, I would have said for sure that an UPDATE underway. However, under the present new infrastructure, I would call it Major Reshuffling, unless Brett announce something else :-)
On a side note. It seems that Matt Cutts didn't approve calling the Reseller Friendly DCs by the name "Emmy Datacenters". As a result he phoned today the folks at the plex and asked them to change the data of the said DCs to be Reseller Unfriendly.
Goodby my gorgeous DCs (:(
PS. If you see much spam and 100s of off-topic comments on Matt's blog the coming days, you don't need to guess who have done it :-)
I'm doing some different queries.
With or without &filter=0, there wasn't much difference for the one set of keywords I did.
Result No. 4 for example was full of keyword stuffing.
So basically, if I want to have top 10 results, I need to keyword stuff.
No thanks, my users like reading sentences not keywords.
"reseller friendly DC's were friendly to me too, but i see no changes. reseller are you serious those DC's going unfriendly to you"
For around 30 minutes, I saw an "earthquake" on the DCs. And my friendly DCs just vanished.
They are back now to be friendly, but with some strange unrelated sites appearing at top 10 of the serps. For example a site talking about materials and polymers, and another site talking about Printable Coupons, when I run a query related to online advertising. Those two sites shouldn't be there at all. So we are talking about less relevant search results.
I still think that a major reshuffling taking place. On and off....
I guess things are changing very fast this weekend. Something major is taking place. Lets wait and see ;-)
Hmm. My spam-o-meter is picking up a high density of potential spam peaking around the San Diego area this weekend. Any thoughts on why the spam-o-meter is measuring such high readings?...
Looks like by the end of the weekend, the density will be going back down though. Very strange...
If this is not another joke....?
