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The most recent content which I've been able to find is from about a week ago (5/16/03) - also I'm noticing the complete disappearance of the "fresh" tags on search results (Updated xx/xx/xxxx).
Anyone have any insight into what is happening over at Google, now? We've got this fancy "new" index on all of the data centers, when is it going to resume it's normal behavior?
The fresh crawl that started over the last day seems to be recrawling the April deepbot crawl. But whether or not that content will appear within the time frames normally associated with freshbot is still an unanswered question.
The next 24 hours should bring some more concrete answers.
If that is the case then I would expect to see fresh data today sometime.
However, many are saying that freshbot is going deeper into their sites - so who knows if this is normal freshbot or not :) :(
This morning I've noticed a rise in traffic to our travel portal. Although I've not yet checked our site's logs in detail, the Live Help system we use enables us to check (in real-time) the URLs that visitors are arriving at.
Right now, previously unindexed pages seem to be appearing in Google results. Even more interesting is that one recently altered (but previously indexed) URL is showing up in its changed form but without a freshbot date tag (these haven't been appearing since about the 16th if I remember rightly). This is a page that I personally altered within the last day or so.
All of our new pages have a PR0 with a white Google toolbar, but have indexed just fine :)
I think people may suddenly get happy again today when the additional factors that GG talked about eventually come into play. Certainly - as many have already pointed out - we're witnessing a fundamental change in the way indexing, updates and results are produced on Google. However, I'm of the opinion that the doom and gloom merchants will end up looking rather foolish (and realize that they've been spouting alot of hysterical twaddle about this update).
Just my 2 Denaris worth ;)
Although, like others, I was seeing a lot more evidence of fresh tags some 12 hours ago than I'm seeing now.
I made a change to my title about a week ago. The old title had:
location1/location2 more keywords
I changed it to read:
location1-location2 more keywords
The difference was changing the "/" to a "-".
I also use a server side include to generate a date on my page. In the past, I could see what version of my page is showing in the results by looking at my cached page. I just did a search and saw my old title showing as a result. However when I click on the cached page link - it shows my most recent indexed page with a May 23, 2003 date. It appears that maybe Freshbot is only updating cached pages?
