Update Jagger, Google Update Oct 18th, 2005

When can we expect a new PR update?

[jretzer]

Continued from here:
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Anyone have any guesses as to when we can expect a new systemwide PR update?

[Webmeister]

Update Jagger
I wonder if I will be singing "I Can't Get No, Satisfaction" or "Jumping Jack Flash"

I think for many of us it's more like "Shattered".

:-(

[Webmeister]

(See - I told you guys it was an update.)

[ronin]

Gimme Shelter.

[aliszka]

Shattered

That's more like what g__le will say, MSN clearly has them beat and will capitalize on this whole situation, MSN has been providing some serious traffic for us to the point where who cares about g__gle?

[BillyS]

It's not over (I hope). I see at least three sets of results.

[aeiouy]

Anyone else catch the part in the other thread where SteveB suggested that the actual update has not been implemented yet?

If that is a possibility why not wait a bit longer and see how things shake out. Since we now have confirmation that there is an update going on, underway, coming soon, it makes sense to wait and see how it ends before anyone writes a suicide note.

[WebPixie]

19th nervous breakdown?

[followgreg]

The problem with high tustrank sites is that when they start using link exchange and all SEO stuff (looking at 2 results for "online college degrees" type of searches for example) they are untouchable almost.
A dot EDU grants you all rights as it does for other "trusted" sites, overall the system is fine but definetely there are major outcomes there.
Some even sell text links...come on :)

It seems like good old SEO is out....my point is why? Is it better to high rank sites with almost no content or usability? Not sure.

I'm also not sold (for current results on DC's) that the age of a site should always be considered as a possible value added, some old junk sites (you know even some with automated link exchange systems and keywords in-the-url) seem to be back with this update.
Low class affiliate type of sites are back, prepare your wallets :)

[malasorte]

I'm new to this and this update really scares me. I've put my site online three day ago, got indexed by google (only my main page) in two days. Got nice search results for combinations of my two keyords. Now, a few miutes ago the other pages of my site got indexed, but to possitions like 560 in the Serps, even though they are quality top 10 material pagese for Serps.
Because puting the site online just now I only have a few back links to my site. What are the chences that my site survives the update. I'm afraid of the sandbox or something like this...

[GoogleGuy]

Just to recap:
- I currently expect new PR/backlinks to be visible in a few days. I'll let you know if that changes.
- madweb had an interesting observation in message #816 of this thread:
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I believe that there is a new binary wending its way out from the group of data centers that included 66.102.7.x . Most people won't notice much difference between data centers, but I believe that those searches are likely to be closer to what to expect.

So just to set expectations, there will still be quite a bit of flux for people to expect near-term. We'll be setting up a way for people to pass us feedback.