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Let's recap:
Normal dance:
Five days into it and it is almost over with index moving across the other 7 main data centers.
So far, 7 days into this PRE-DANCE:
The SJ data has not started to migrate to the other 7 main data centers. FI not included.
I have not seen sj results show up on www in over 3 days now.
www2 and www3 all are pointed to the IP of sj.
I've seen it mentioned that we have been privy to a part of the dance we normally don't see and I would be inclined to agree with that.
I don't think we will see the real dance start for a couple days at least. It's not a real dance anyway until all the data is applied, so I think we are all going to see a big shift from what the SJ server is showing and what will actually be in the index.
I find it funny that GoogleGuy has disappeared. I think they rolled out the new algo to get our opinions. Most searchers don't bother to fill out a satisfaction report. They just go somewhere else. In that respect, Google has a great asset in this community because they sure got a lot of feedback about what was on the SJ server. I think when the dance really starts in earnest, we'll see GoogleGuy show up again.
Anyway, back to work adding content for the next deep crawl
:)
[edited by: mrguy at 10:39 pm (utc) on May 8, 2003]
Looks like the results are being refined a bit and then they will be slapped on www in all their glory.
I doubt that Google is going to ignore robots.txt, so perhaps this is a dynamic experiment looking for changes over time.
I'm not convinced the update will look like -fi or -sj.
When they changed it the other day a ton of spam sites vanished and a load of rankings of mine and my clients changed for the better.
Seems to me like they have finally cracked it. Either that or they have read my mind and the robot works the same as my SEO. (one can wish)
and -ex goes limp on bend 2... will have to be destroyed.
www2, and www3 are now in the middle of the pack even-steven with -sj.... but wait those are just sponsor logos on the -sj jockey uniform..... sorry folks....
and here we are on the final laps, and it's, it's, it's...
folks we have a winner... it's SJ! SJ wins the Google Triple Crown.
(taken from the Tuesday May 13th sports book daily)
Missing links, sites that were banned last month now back in with same stuff that got them banned in the first place, I just don't know what to think about this so called update!
Maybe it should be called a "Backdate" or "DoOver"
Hm, funny, now they have all changed back to where they were before.
curious...
and my sites got fresh tags. 9 May 2003
Seriously though, using 2 month old backlink data just doesn't cut the mustard when that is such an integral part of their algo.
I work in the Web software world where the latest and greatest comes out every month. I really don't care to see these old results at all.
Seems to me like they are getting a little to "cute" with their ideas over at the plex and may be orgetting what has made their results the most popular for so long.
You can guess whom I'm voting for, but what confuses me is that the PR on my page is still grey.
[webmasterworld.com...]
I take it this means that Brett does not consider this the real update yet? (good news for me)
Also, has anyone heard what Brett himself believes is going on here? Does he think that eventually the old backlinks will be added back in to all our sites?
Dunno what is going on. All too wacky.
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Even the WW servers have joined the wackyness now...
Posted this at: 2003-05-11 20:20 UTC
Message marked as: 11:20 pm on May 13, 2003 (UTC 0)
