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I can't remember seeing this before...
I was searching for some information on XML parsing using PHP's DOM method.
Here's the original search: php dom store node value php5
Here's the 'Did You Mean?': php dom tree node value php5
> And no, I absolutely did not. If I meant tree. I would have typed tree or something close...
They're two completely different searches!
Sorry for the specifics, but I thought the suggestion of the word 'tree' in place of the word 'store' was significant, because I don't remember seeing a completely different word in the middle of a phrase, which completely changes the search in the 'did you mean' before... Maybe I missed it, because I usually don't pay attention to the 'did you mean' too much unless I'm checking spelling or something, but this time it jumped out at me.
That's not a synonym, dictionary or homophone replacement it's purely phrase based...
BTW tedster: I looked for the correct thread on two pages this time and figured this was it. :)
prior to that I had been observing some dubious behaviour for about a month on a particular DC that I seem to get answering my queries here (for geographical reasons I think) every time they're messing or changing something
well ive started seeing these strange results again yesterday, basically the rankings are different because there are various pages missing from this (.com) index, that still show up on .co.uk, and on the DC tools, and caffeine.
its like we get our own little private preview of the process while its going on.
with a full rollout of Caffeine?
Could be an exciting month if Goog engineers can get their act together.
So far, I've sensed some disturbances in the Googplex Force regarding Caffeine's flawless and complete implementation...
Sorry, I just had to add my two cents because informational searches seem to be yielding more and more commercial noise (mainly pages with "cheap", "free", "buy", "order", etc in the title or on-page).
@ kevsta: My main 'shock' was seeing the word in the middle of a phrase replaced. I've seen words on the end of a short phrase replaced / suggested differently previously, but have not noticed the 3rd word in a 5 word phrase replaced with in the 'Did You Mean' before, like I said, I usually don't pay a bit of attention, so I may have missed it, but it was new to me, so I figured I'd post about it and see if anyone else had noticed it or if it was something new.
So far, I've sensed some disturbances in the Googplex Force regarding Caffeine's flawless and complete implementation...
You're sounding like Senna the Soothsayer again.
Matt Cutts says it's not live yet.
I've done some tests to see if I can stimulate Caffeine to no avail. I think it is either off or it is on and currently it is off.
On the live results after a wobble they seem to have settled down in my neck of the woods. My current hypothesis on the changes I did see is that UK/US semantic differences are being better defined, key words in URLs given a boost, on topic back links ever more important. Geo location of sites backlinking to you may be important for geo ranking and for the UK/US semantics thing. ie Google seems to be more likely to apply more weight to UK semantic understanding of your terms if backlinks are weighted towards UK sites. So for UK sites if your terms are sensitive to this you need to have more backlinks from on topic sites in the UK.
Of course I could be wrong ;-)
Cheers
Sid
This seems to be a pattern I have not noticed before. Perhaps it is just me being more sensitive to it at the moment, and thus my post to see if others have noticed a "sluggish" cache update on Google's part?
Matt Cutts says it's not live yet.
Either way, at the end of day, my posts are targeted to only a few people, so no worries if you don't agree. :)
gford
Gford's Back!
Gonna stick around and leave some of your testing goodness this time?
Nice to see ya around again. :)
In one case the domain occupied 5 of 10 first page results and 2 of the following 10 on the second page.
I am in agreement with everyone else here that something is odd. From the comments of 5 of 10 from 1 domain, to two week old results. While I have not seen these (but will be looking for them now), I have seen some really awful results such as BLANK askville pages for extremely competitive terms in the medical industry and the cache dates issue I mentioned in my previous post.
It just seems google is so busy doing something behind the scenes that the actual results are suffering slightly, albeit only noticeable to those of us really paying attention for the most part.
I have seen sites with small text boxes within the page (scrolling text box) stuffing text within the page without it looking bad ranking for words.
Also another thing noticed is that sites which have a link network supplying it with links ranking high, especially in the .co.uk dc's when the links are from co.uk websites.
This implies that locality of back source links is heavily favoured
Either way, at the end of day, my posts are targeted to only a few people
Could you give us all some insight on who those people might be? Just trying to figure out if I should be reading your posts or not.
Been sounding like "Senna the sayer" for a long time now.
Anyone who wants to go back and check my record of correct predictions and analysis can do so and you'll see the usual disagreement I've gotten for it.
Time usually proves me right, but those who argued against have short memories, it seems.
So....to answer your question...
if you're an SEO in a hypercompetitive market that needs to be 3-6 months ahead of the competition to keep an edge, you might want to pay attention to what I'm saying between the lines.
Most people/niches don't fall in this category, so they can probably wait til all the "big name" SEOs write up their analysis AFTER MC has commented on it and simply ignore my rants.
Most times they will still be ahead of the competition, if they act quickly on that knowledge.
lol, ironically, this conversation reminds me of a test gford and I did back in '05 on another forum.
Btw - I still use that keyword and site for testing purposes. If you remember, it's sitting at #11 from #98 with the current test I'm doing
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if you're an SEO in a hypercompetitive market that needs to be 3-6 months ahead of the competition to keep an edge, you might want to pay attention to what I'm saying between the lines.
Thanks, that clears things up.
lol, ironically, this conversation reminds me of a test gford and I did back in '05 on another forum.
Btw - I still use that keyword and site for testing purposes. If you remember, it's sitting at #11 from #98 with the current test I'm doing
#11? I see it higher on my DC, time to do a cross-DC check! :)
I never left, just a massive lurker
like many of us :-), thing is that the changes in the SERPS are so complicated that forums discussions have stopped being very useful to pinpoint a specific effect.
the whole index rotates like a dance on steroids in some areas and other listings have not changed for 12+ months now!
P!
Did anyone noticed the same behaviour?
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Matt Cutts replied "nope, although a % of users do get AJAX results. That's a nice win for users."
Hmm what is this all about any ideas?
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Whitenight, have you got a link to your rants?
many of them are in the FAQs in this forum.
Just got this on twitter "Google will announce tomorrow that search results will b in AJAX 4 real time results & ranking software killer. SMX EAST"Matt Cutts replied "nope, although a % of users do get AJAX results. That's a nice win for users."
Nice timing.
Another one of my oft-edited rants that many people said I was overreacting too, when they originally did this.
So much for MC's nice speech about "returning to Goog's core values" or whatever.
Mandatory GA installed for tracking Google traffic anyone?
At any rate - here's a reference thread from earlier this year:
Google AJAX Powered Serps Kills Referals [webmasterworld.com]
By the way, Google did fix the referrer tracking problem
And tonight, almost every keyword came back - no matter if I did something or if I did nothing. Was this really all a big 4-month-google-hiccup?!?! I like working for nothing.
Google does ALOT of testing at primetime viewing hours Pacific Time in the fall.
The SERPs can change completely from minute to minute.
Really fascinating to watch if one is objective.
