dmoz.org has +140K backlinks

On www2, www3, -sj and -fi

[ulstrup]

Backlinks on yahoo.com / dmoz.org / directory.google.com

[google.com...] 661.000 / 204.000 / 199.000
[www2.google.com...] 617.000 / 342.000 / 121.000
[www3.google.com...] 617.000 / 342.000 / 121.000

[www-ex.google.com...] 661.000 / 204.000 / 199.000
[www-sj.google.com...] 617.000 / 342.000 / 121.000
[www-va.google.com...] 661.000 / 204.000 / 199.000
[www-dc.google.com...] 661.000 / 204.000 / 199.000
[www-ab.google.com...] 661.000 / 204.000 / 199.000
[www-in.google.com...] 661.000 / 204.000 / 199.000
[www-zu.google.com...] 661.000 / 204.000 / 199.000
[www-fi.google.com...] 617.000 / 342.000 / 121.000

The dmoz.org results are interesting, + 140K, seems like internal links count more on www2, www3, -sj and -fi.

I have one site added to dmoz.org in april, it does not show up as backlink on any google center, but has the dmoz.org description on www, not any other.

I can't figure out what this means, but one suggestion could be a turn away from Yahoo to dmoz AND probably it's partners in measuring importance of backlinks.

This is ofcourse apart from any algo change, which IMO can't be measured before the final update results go live.

[jeremy goodrich]

Thanks for the chart, seems that their data isn't quite 'settled' yet, I hope to know more soon as well!

Will be interesting to see if any of the research floating around has impacted their results in a noticable way.

[fashezee]

the final update results go live

Any idea when this will happen?

[ulstrup]

I don't expect the updated results will go live soon.

Looks like some sort of algo tweak is still in test mode on the old db (-sj and -fi), results on www2 and www3 are still based on an older db too, actually the most resent results are to be found on the current www.

Like others here, I'm speculating on wether Google is moving away from monthly updates and implementing a floating fresh/everflux like update procedure.

[BigDave]

Shouldn't this have gone in the neverending update thread?

[takagi]

Several members on Webmasterworld have complained that links from ODP to their pages were missing after the Cassandra update (April 11) because these ODP pages were no longer in Google's index. This was most likely caused by the downtime at ODP when deepbot was collecting the data (end of March). Search for

site:dmoz.org -asdf

gives 308k on fi, 518k on sj and only 226k on www. So my guess is a lot of the new 140K links are internal links to the homepage that were lost in last update.