Questions for GoogleGuy

[Brett_Tabke]

Post your best question you would like to ask GoogleGuy and at the end of the week, we'll pull out the top 10 requests and submit them to him in another thread:

Thread Rules:
-q's about Google operation. (not gg himself)
-one question only please.
-no noise or clarifying questions.
-no specifics about your site please.
-off topic stuff will be zapped (nffc is on duty!).
-Keep it short. Don't drone on for more than 2 sentences.

[gracedpoet]

Will Google ever offer a Toolbar for Mac users?

[darkroom]

Are you considering publishing a book based on your "new" algo? *To help webmasters/Seo's to understand what to do and what not to do*
If so, then when and where can we get it?
If not, then why not?

[AmericanBulldog]

What is the timeframe for a google IPO?

[NovaW]

Why did Google put the PR indicator on the toolbar - and when will they drop it so that sites can go back to linking for the right reasons.

[whatson]

Is exchanging links still an important part of search engine positioning? Or with this new algo and spam filters is this a thing of the past?

[fathom]

Where does Google want to go today?

When will the hostile takeover occur? :)

[golloween]

Does Google have any plans of introducing a paid service for webmasters that would allow them to determine whether a site is penalized or not (and why), and when the penalty will be lifted?

[eyeinthesky]

Can you please give us your own, updated, version of Brett's "12 months to success with Google alone" thesis?

[GrinninGordon]

May I have a link from your index page?

[indiandomain]

india has one of the largest internet populations in asia.
will google launch an indian based google.co.in?

[Liane]

GG, what do you anticipate the life of Adwords (without any fundamental changes) will be? Note: This includes any PFI programmes.

[GlynMusica]

Could Google offer webmasters ALREADY in the Google index the ability to signal that they have changed their servers -via some kind of page?

In this way webmasters could signal to the Googlebot to refresh its DNS for a site at the next crawl.

For eight months a site I've seen has suffered because Googlebot goes and crawls a domain that was hosted on a static IP and was then switched over to a another server.

Googlebot keeps going back to the domain using the old DNS, and indexing the site that now sits at that IP, more interesting than that is, Google then gives the keywords assigned to the old domain to the site now sitting on that IP! And presents them in their search engine results.

Patience is a virtue...so I am told..but this is getting out of hand!

I know I'm not alone either.

Glyn.

[angiolo]

Sometimes Dmoz moves a site from a category to another category or move entire categories.
How much does this shifting influence the Google algo?

[biggles]

Automated position checkers like WPG are against Google's TOS, yet many website owners demand ranking reports.

Why not extend the Google Web APIs License Key to WPG, IBP, Web CEO, Top Dog etc etc so users can safely run checks? I understand WPG approached Google about this but got no response.
< I have no association with WPG >

[nervous_seo]

When will Google dismantle the TOOLBAR.

Startup sites dont have a chance with it!

[anallawalla]

Will Google give marketers some overriding switch to check Adwords that appear in another country as part of a SERP, e.g. someone in .au checking .uk?

(Services like anonymizer are OK when checking US results but not easily available in other places)

[Web Footed Newbie]

GoogleGuy - If you were David Letterman and didn't work for Google, knowing what you know:

What would be your Top 10 list of ranking well in Google?

...and may you someday be as wealthy! thanks for the tips!

[jimbeetle]

BlockRank, ThemeRank, whatever the heck it's called, gazing into the crystal ball any time frame for implementation?

<oops>Looks like I've read stuff wrong. Disregard.</oops>

[Pricey]

Does googlebot index or read RDF documents and/or look at <link rel="meta" href="document.rdf">?

[cjtripnewton]

Has anyone from Google ever had talks with AltaVista, Inktomi, AllTheWeb, MSN, or Teoma about creating a set of standards that will enable webmasters to cleanly remove or redirect old urls or individual pages using one simple command or set of commands? Part B: Have there been any standards discussions at all with other search engine companies?

<typo>

[kapow]

Can one site damage another?

Re. People building sites or adding links to bad sites to try to damage competitors. (Sorry if this has been asked, there are too many questions to read and check.)

[DVDBurning]

Will Google improve the algorithm to add consideration for the depth and breadth of content on a page, or even the depth of information on a whole website (versus calculating PageRank and results by the page)?

See also... [webmasterworld.com...]

[dmorison]

Nout' to do with SERPs this one :)

Are Google concerned about the impact the media might have upon what would otherwise be a successful IPO?

[athinktank]

Has google ever considered something like gTidy ( Google Tidy ) that would say either OK or BAD when given an html page? No need to tell us why a page was bad, we should know.

[edited by: athinktank at 6:52 pm (utc) on May 28, 2003]

[Giacomo]

How soon should we expect Google to start parsing JavaScript in order to detect problem pages using sneaky client-side redirects?

[egomaniac]

Currently links to a page are treated equally whether they come from pages on the same domain or from pages on other "outside" domains.

Does Google plan to deemphasize the weight of links coming from pages on the same domain?

[HayMeadows]

How many spam reports does Google get a day?

[gingerbreadman]

When is a bribe not a bribe?

and....

'...While search engines have improved steadily under the hood since the first days of the Web, they look and function pretty much the same as ever.

But computer scientists are working on new search techniques and interfaces that could significantly alter most surfers' results pages. Expect, for example, to be able to sift through search results graphically, or to
personalize Google results. ...'

Discuss in no more than 200 words.

[mahlon]

Do they give tours of the Googleplex? When are you going to retire?

[werty]

What are the future plans of "Google Compute"?