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I just checked all 9 datacenters. Only -sj and -fi have the new index.
Watch the calendar, not the clock.
Peter
Can anyone confirm this?
Thank You.
Tejas
Yes, I'm seeing new PR values on sites that have been around, and PR for the first time on brand newish sites that were deep crawled last time around... How nice!
LisaB
I am thinking along the same lines as you are.
First off, when judging the new algo it is useful to compare the results from fi to the results from February because this is when the backlink data are from. This being said, I am seeing much poorer results on almost every single category I follow. Even sites that are without question the definitive resource (like actual product brand) seem to have fallen dramatically in the new algo.
The other point that you make is that overusing freshness seems to lead to trashy pages with hardly any "votes". This is a fundamental problem with the new algo.
Lastly, it seems that PR plays less and less of a role as time goes on. I think, overall, this really hurts the quality of results. Because Google ostensibly could not control the manipulation of PR, they have decided to give it much less weight when scoring and it REALLY throws the system out of whack.
Funny, the "old" index shows pages updated as of May 12. The "new" (sj/fi)index shows my homepage as it appeared in Feb/March. Strange.
However, Should I panic!
Dont think so, I assume that this is the PR of a couple of months back as my site is only two months old and was a PR0 back before the last update.
GG - if you are about would you say this would be likely and drop a hint along the lines that when backlinks are added then PR ranks may change?
JohnnStacy weird you see them but not me?
Interesting to see what happens now. We all have our PR from 2 months ago. Once this settles perhaps they will bring in the rest of th missing stuff.
Gooblegruble....
Jeesh, would be nice for this to settle in already, or not, or maybe?... or not, hahahaha.
Gooblegruble....
Jeesh, would be nice for this to settle in already, or not, or maybe?... or not, hahahaha. :)
My guess is it will settle with fi results then everything else will be added - the $64,000 question though is when?
www is a bit like a deck of magical cards.
www-sj, www-fi, www-ex and the other datacenters are the individual cards in the magical google deck.
Every time you pick up the deck of cards, i.e., do a search, google shuffles the magical deck.
So, sometimes the top card won't change, but sometimes it does. And Google the Magical can also palm up a different deck that has 51 Aces of Hearts and one Joker whenever he/she/it elects to do so.
But can anyone explain why this shows?
link:yahoo.com - www. 661,000
link:yahoo.com - www-sj. 3,150
link:yahoo.com - www2. 3,150
etc.
thanks rd
