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]
Its funny as earlier today i used the search and thought the results were much cleaner. Then late afternoon i did a similar keyword search and the results were plain awfull. One extream to the other.
On seeing your six "Friendly" data centres i used the same search terms as i did this morning and found that it is indeed the data centres you have found that are delivering the quality cleaner serps.
As to if these end up being the Google serps is anyones guess. No idea what Google is currently doing but the results are all over the place - anyone who thinks this update is over needs help, its far from over, its just starting imo!
Whitey: The site has about 3,000 pages currently. But grows dynamically, depending on visitor reviews, etc.
I don't trust any page figures being given out *including my own* if the yare taken from the Google page no's - they don't seem to demonstrate anything.
None- 4 weeks ago all supps bar 1
280k - 1 week ago - 230k more pages than we have
58k - yesterday
28k - approx 22k less pages than we have
If I go to one of several DC's and type
site:mydomain/category1/category2/ i get something close to the no of pages
Therefore the total no of pages being displayed is not correct, and the page no's that are being provided are very much flying around all over the place.
Any calls of *real* stability in any area yet - anyone?
Just took my final reading for this evening ...
Indexed pages down across the spectrum today. Down 4% - 10% on all DCs, except the 2 "weirdos", 72.14.207.99 and 72.14.207.99 ...Both are showing a 149% increase for today ...
My side was in the Supplemental Hell. In few days everything came back (umpteen hundertausend pages). For 2 days I almost have lost the most again.
Just checked those two dc's and my site has been whacked again. Took another half of the pages out. Heck, it's a small site as it is.
Give it another couple of days and it will be gone completely. I will have no more worries. (sick)
Evidence: I have two sites for my particular keywords. Once has been abandoned for about a year, and simply points to my new site on every page. It is barely used by searchers, and hasn't received any new backlinks in at least 6 months. Nonethelss, as of last night its ranking top for a whole set of keywords, without any new changes in the site/backlinks.
This really has been an incredible mess for ... what ... 7 or so weeks now?
Maybe we should have a contest to rename Big Daddy to something more appropriate :)
Thats a bit genorous.
I would say probably closer to 60 weeks - but hey.
I wonder if Google are going to pull something out of the bag this long holiday weekend (although I dont think it is a hol in the states?)
