Update Cassandra! Google Montly Update

Part ONE

[qball0213]

Check it out, I'm seeing 661,000 links for yahoo.

[le_gber]

Silly question (2):

Now I've checked my ranking in www-ex.google.com and www2/3.google.com.

Should I start working on my pages straight away (b4 the deepcrawl) or should I wait that www.google.com settles down and check the results then?

Leo

ps. bonne nuit GG

[RonPK]

>> Sure they aren't deep crawling?

It was 64.68.82.46, and only requested robots.txt and 1 page (PR4 on a PR5 site with 4000+ pages).

[edited by: RonPK at 11:01 am (utc) on April 11, 2003]

[mil2k]

Yes the first results which i saw on ex are now seen on google. Not much shuffling of positions and hence hardly any dance!

[canuck]

Looks like the dance has already hit the main www Google server.

661k Links on www... wow that was fast! :)

[mil2k]

I am seeing stable results on the main server for the past 1 hour now. This has to be the quickest update i have ever seen!

[Marketing Guy]

Anyone else got Googlebot on their site right now?

64.68.82.45 crawler11.googlebot.com
64.68.82.16 crawler10.googlebot.com

(is this main bot or fresh?)

I thought crawling didnt place during the update? Although I must confess when threads turn even remotely technical, I stop paying attention.... :)

Scott

[canuck]

64.* is the freshbot...

Looks like he's hungry.

[spanker]

Please don't tell me the dance is already over..

the google cache is still showing my old non updated site from the last update,

going to put another pot of coffee on..

this is killin me..

[canuck]

Spanker, this update's results are from the March 10-20th (about) crawl. If you updated your site after that time you'll have to wait until the next update... the crawling for which should start within a few days.

[jady]

This has got be break a new record! The shortest time ever during an update that the thread was broken in two OVER NIGHT! At least I wasnt the only one on pins and needles - and all for the exact spot we were in before the update... #2 :)

[Marcia]

>>Life isn't pink here. Should I start working on my pages straight away (b4 the deepcrawl) or should I wait that www.google.com settles down.

Leo, stay calm and do a little tweaking. You've got some time. I got a brand new site put up practically overnight and caught the crawl last month just in time, and it's all in, including pages added during the month.

[martingj]

Hi all from the UK,
what a Friday a smooth g-dance and g-bot(64's 1-12) Ink Fast & IA on the same domain at the same time ......
oh yes and the odd visitor still fits in.....

[beachlover]

Jeez - Freshbot is all over my pages ...

He really seems to be be VERY_HUNGRY at the moment. Started about half an hour ago and keeps pounding very hard.

[Total Paranoia]

Anyone seeing any major changes in backlinks? I have noticed the (very few) guestbook entries one of my clients has either have disappeared completely or are showing much further down the list of backlinks - I assume the lower the listing, the less important the links are considered.

OK, I know the dance is far from finished but this seems very interesting. Most of my websites are showing less backlinks now on www2 & www3 but thankfully without any drop.

If this is the case and google has made some algo changes regarding guestbook entries - well done GG! I remember you posted something regarding sorting this problem last month.

[Marketing Guy]

Total Im seeing a slight drop in backlinks for one site - the guestbook entries (ahem....done pre-WW :)) may account for that.

But on another site Im seeing 50% more backlinks, a fluctuating PR (from 5 to 6) and a rise in rankings (site redesign last month).

So Im happy! :)

Scott

[canuck]

I'm showing 692k Yahoo links again in Canada... the dance continues as www temporarily is now showing the old results.

[mil2k]

i am getting 661K here in India. And the results seem to be pretty much settled over here!

[futureX]

www. 692,000
www2. 661,000
www3. 661,000
www-ex. 661,000

*feels relief*

hmmm, my PR has gone grey... But my site seems to have gained pr on googleas its ranking has changed with my other sites on www3.

[nutsandbolts]

Some up, some down. Some across. Not bad!

[netguy]

<but what does www-ex.google.com mean? >

Bignooz... I was hoping that somebody would define it as well, as most of the other datacenters are self-explanatory (Brett and GG are probably taking a well-deserved rest).

I finally found it (on a foreign language site), so if my interpretation is correct, www-ex.google.com stands for Exodus Communications, and it appears to be one of Google's first datacenters setup in 1998.

Steve

[rharri]

www-ex is the data center where the changes began this month.

[ct2000]

seeing new results on Yahoo already ..

[Canary]

Briefly saw results on Yahoo - but they have gone now.

Also briefly saw updates to the toolbar

[canuck]

Yahoo is still showing 692k results for link:www.yahoo.com --- you see 661k results searching on Yahoo?

Would be nice if Yahoo would update their Google database too... ;)

[pardo]

Woow everybody is dancing their feets mad and I can smell the sweat overhere.

So much talking, dancing, guessing, worrying, smiling...

Take a break...these results will be here for a couple of weeks ;)

Anybody in for a drink?

[cindysunc]

GoogleGuy do you know the "official start" of the dance? There was a contest and i think i'm pretty close. Official time EST?

[Brett_Tabke]

We had it spotted within a few minutes of activation.

[Canary]

Yahoo do sometimes seem to have the new index before www1 - I have seen this on a few updates.

[McMohan]

So, whats the theme of this update? Me thinks, PR is back into reckoning in a major way! PR again rules the roost?

Mc

[khuntley]

Hello all...
Have a new site that got about 15-20 inward links during the last month including dmoz and a pr8 site. And google has spidered several hundred pages of the site. However site has PR0 throughout update and no backlinks on any of the 8 datacenters. Might things change in the next few days? Could all of the sites linking to me have been missed by deep? Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Kevin