Reliability of Google Update Monitors

Is link:www.yahoo.com the only way to tell if the update has started?

[madweb]

Whilst the 'official' danceometer "link:www.yahoo.com" is remaining very quiet, I am seeing significant dancing on some of my keyword phrases, i.e. SERPS changing since the last update and all 8 datacenters giving a different number of results for the same search. I'm not saying this is the dance... just that results that are important to me are dancing.

I'm still quite new to the idea of freshbot and other such google complications, but why would a few freshly updated pages cause a discpreancy of 1000s of results between the different datacenters?

Or alternatively if the update is starting, why is nobody getting excited? Certainly the webmasterworld google update tool is not interested at the moment.

[le_gber]

The start of the dance can only be annouced by people who check backlinks and not keywords.

What you've exerienced is called EVERFLUX [webmasterworld.com]

Leo

<updated> sorry I had the CAPS locked </updated>

[creative craig]

Welcome to webmasterworld [webmasterworld.com]

Google Updates and Everflux, the Monthly Mid-Cycle Changes [webmasterworld.com]

Googlebot: Deepbot and Freshbot FAQ and Information [webmasterworld.com]

Some reading for you :)

Craig

[madweb]

Thanks

[atadams]

Although I can't wait for the commotion on this board when one day, by chance, Yahoo has the same number of backlinks AFTER the dance has started as they did BEFORE.

Great fun will be had by all.