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Over and done with?
All done all through?
I notice that Google uk has two sets too. The morning DC seems to be showing better for me than the afternoon one (the one that is running now)
For the last three days I have been no. 25/26 in the morning at between no. 31 -36 in the afternoons.
Also, someone on the other thread said that 9.99 and 9.104 are the same DC, but they throw up very different results.
The best one for me so far is 66.249.93.104 which is well above the others.
Fed up with all this!
Gary
With the obvious effect that this will have on small to medium businesses, has anyone thought about drafting a press release (BBC). Might be worth using the collective knowledge within this forum to warn the community at large ... just a thought
Fund Managers arent though - which is surely why Google P/E is so high.
Anyway, I am trying not to be to critical of Google - they just have a bug or two IMO - that needs fixing.
Personally, I would much rather it get played down and Google could talk to us and get it fixed.
I added some 20k new pages 4 weeks ago, most of them indexed. A handful has a pr, most still going at 0. Yet they appear in 1st or 2nd page in results, way before sites that have like pr 4.
I've linked to 25 of these pages from my home page in hope to get their pr's high as they're very very popular. All of these still have pr 0. :/
when the PR update hits which I think is Jan
I know that Google were made aware of these problems over a year ago... but all they responded with was something like "Google crawls the web on an irregular basis and the information will be updated next time we crawl".
They didn't even read the original question because that question showed two searches: one that brought up a normal result and a normal cache, and another search that brought the page up as a supplemental result showing a title that hasn't existed for 2 years, and a snippet with content that hasn't existed for 2 years, and then linked to a cache from only 3 days ago. Blatently, their idea of "update" is not the same as ours.
They were provided with copious examples and the replies got ever more ridiculous. I know of at least 8 different people who sent in examples based on their own sites: all were fobbed off. Some were recommended to use Google Remove, and all that did was hide the page for 90 days.
Google were also supplied multiple lists of sites that have redirected non-www for ages, yet Google continues to still show the non-www pages (and their very old content in the snippet) in their results as supplemental pages.
>> My own feeling is that the non-www/www problem is so deep rooted that it may never be solved - same as the supplementals. <<
You could be right. The supplemental database just accumulates old information. I don't think they have any plans, or ideas of how, to clean it up.
Fund Managers arent though - which is surely why Google P/E is so high.
This is not a dig at Google, I just see them what I think they are: a big company. Just analysing
An index update is a MAJOR business operation. At the end more money or at least equal money has to come in.
Google is now all about finding new ways to sell ads. Google Telly, print, scan, desktop, maps, gmail, earth etc etc.
I think the target to sell more ads will not change also for a search engine update. Giving more traffic to smaller websites and getting them to write more content and giving them hope with adsense is a new ad market. Giving the same traffic to the same people does not equal financial growth. Since G delivers the traffic it has full control over who will be top when and how they want it. One employee might be interested in cleaning out some spam as it's his job. But he ain't Google as a whole. He is just an employee.
There is nothing evil about it, it's just business. But in that way the update makes more sense to me as to see it as pure search engine purification procedure. It has to be that + finding new ways or bigger markets to deliver ads, let the competition slowly die in things they want to do in the future etc.
Again this is not a particular dig as Google, it's a big company now as all the others. Trying to make more money not less. As search is their business, business comes first, nice search results later and only not to drive off users with too bad results.
CEO sitting at the next AGM and saying well we lost a shootload of money but look at the nice search pages now, is not gonna be on.. lol
I'm seeing this in my traffic logs. What the heck is it?
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:27KXg-NcpQ8J:www.webmasterworld.com/fakepage.php+%22
keyword1+keyword2%22&hl=en&client=firefox-aWhen I click on that it takes me to a cached page of my website (a fairly unpopular page) with two particular key words highlighted.
I'm not ranked in the top 3 pages in Google for these two keywords, so I don't think this is the result of human surfers.
This didn't start until the Jagger update, so I'm worried that this means G is ready to do something crazy with my rankings.
When will this update finally be solidified?
Very difficult to explain these things easily in a press release. Writing and distribution of press releases are 2 different things and often don't get picked up.
Tech issues normally lag behind money issues - so unless it affects Adwords....which it doesn't..why would the big G be concerned. OK people may be a bit annoyed about difficulties in finding something but it takes a lot to knock the power of a brand.
I don't think I explained that very well!
