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Warduck
Something very interesting... for the first time *ever* I have seen referrals today greater than 4-7% of total traffic from the likes of ask, ATW and AV. I almost fell off my seat when I saw Hotbot at 1% of all traffic. Does this actually mean the surfer is slowly waking up?
Hi,
Have your pages dropped from Google SERPs and could it just be that this greater percentage is from a smaller total? Just interested as if this did indicate a shift of SE usage I would see this as a very positive step, as long as the others don't start trying to get clever with their algos.
Best wishes
Sid
Ive been saying that this going to be the case from May last year. No one listened.
We need stability and consistent search returns come on MR G.
Not only did Google do this massive change, yahoo is now running Inktomi results now (They must of hated the new results)
Where did you get your info from? I am still seeing the same serps on Yahoo as I am seeing on Google.
Been running them on/off for several months. Here is one thread of many:
[webmasterworld.com...]
They may show some inkomi, however, this appears to be the normal "testing".
I am not saying that they are going to stay here forever.. but this is the longest "Test" away from Google that they ever have done...
[edited by: TheFounder at 7:20 pm (utc) on Jan. 26, 2004]
Either people are getting frustrated and clicking to deep pages of results, or there are dramatically different results coming out.
I saw one from g.co.uk. I went to check it and I was listed at 350. I wonder if me going to g.co.uk gets different results than someone in the uk.
It's not just a random one either. Lots of referrers like this.
Have checked several times maybe they have increased the IP span so more people will see the INK results, unlike some of us we stay with Google at the moment.
Unless everyone is getting a little too much update fever and seeing a mini dance on Yahoo because of Googles results.
Going to make another cup of tea :)
From what I was able to find. Links do not seem to be a factor right now. all sites range in # of links from 0 to 10 which I know is not right so I'm counting that as bad data.
for a site: search for the phrase the sites returned the following numbers of results:
www - 1, 0, 0, 0, 0
allinanchor - 22, 0, 9, 6, 1
allintext - 22, 0, 9, 19, 6
allintitle - 22, 0, 9, 19, 6
keyword density results:
www
#1 - singular 6.25%
#2 - singular 0.18%
#3 - site didn't load
#4 - 0%
#5 - singular 2.33%
allinanchor
#1 - plural 18.18%
#2 - plural 3.51%
#3 - singular 11.83%, plural 3.23%
#4 - plural 11.11%
#5 - site didn't load
allintext
#1 - plural 18.18%
#2 - plural 3.51%
#3 - singular 11.83%, plural 3.23%
#4 - singular 15.38%, plural 15.38%
#5 - plural 11.11%
allintitle
#1 - plural 18.18%
#2 - plural 3.51%
#3 - singular 11.83%, plural 3.23%
#4 - singular 15.38%, plural 15.38%
#5 - plural 11.11%
phrase appearing in Meta Keywords tag
www
#1 - not in Meta
#2 - once in Meta
#3 - site didn't load
#4 - no Meta tag
#5 - separate in Meta
allinanchor
#1 - once in Meta
#2 - not in Meta
#3 - once in Meta
#4 - separate in Meta
#5 - site didn't load
allintext
#1 - once in Meta
#2 - not in Meta
#3 - once in Meta
#4 - once in Meta
#5 - split in Meta
allintitle
#1 - once in Meta
#2 - not in Meta
#3 - once in Meta
#4 - once in Meta
#5 - split in Meta
For Title tags the phrase appeared once in all sites except not at all in #2 on www.
Also the Meta Description tag did not contain the phrase in any of the www results, but it was in the other results for the sites returning #1, #4 and #5.
I know this is only one set of terms, but from what I see it looks as if it is best to keep your density low and don't have your keywords in the head of the document at all. (except Title)
All this tells me is that this thing isn't over. Maybe I will go take time off until Wednesday!
Yahoo is still reporting Inkatomi results.
The change can't come too soon.
Best wishes
Sid
I'm off for a game of darts and 6 pints of ale!
Of course, what I'm seeing can only lead me to believe that searchers are looking elsewhere. Without having access to Googles traffic data, it would be impossible to confirm but I imagine that post Florida and now with the results of Austin propagating, people are just sick of the crappy results.
I just wonder if Google is seeing this trend or so busy playing with the algo that they are blind to what is really happening.
Thanks
Robert
Exactly the same thing happened to me at the weekend. I was talking to a couple of non IT but computer literate people about something when I mentioned Google in a different context to this. One of them said that he no longer uses Google because, "the results are c*ap recently". He asked me if I had heard of Alltheweb because that was what he was now using (this is in the UK).
This person uses the Internet for shopping. He says that when he does a search for something he wants to come up with sites that supply it and can give him information on it. What he doesn't want is a list of directories and other spurious cr*p.
This is the best news I've heard since Mid November because it may be the first signs that Joe Public is now waking up to the fact that Google is gubbed! Hallelujah - spread the gospel! RIP Google?
My referral ratio is now 2.6 : 7 Lycos:Google - highest I've ever seen it.
Any website that has a shopping cart has had a terrible time since Sunday and is virtually non-existent in its search terms, even the business name!
One website that ranked no1. for its business name which was its domain name is out of the top100, yet the 2nd result on google is a website that links to it!
Yahoo is still reporting Inkatomi results.
Yahoo! is slowly rolling over to Inktomi results, and will be switched out completely by the end of Q1.
However, Y! is not showing results from the 216.239.37.99 datacenter (luckily).
what is the easiest way to tell which google ip address is feeding results. I just saw another major shift in results. One that I have only seen one other time today.
Thanks
What you should do is open your DOS window and enter the command c:\ping www.google.com. This will return the IP address you are getting.
What does that mean.Does it mean that "google.de,google.fr,google.it and google.jp" have not completed the update.
