Update Brandy Part 2

[GoogleGuy]

Continued from: [webmasterworld.com...]

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steveb, I believe the 64.x.x.x data center has the change, but I'm not positive. We use different terminology inside Google. :)

Powdork, I'm not sure if you'd call it an update exactly (different algorithms play more of a role than different data). But I'm guessing the change will probably roll out over the course of the weekend.

[pavlin]

Powdork, I do not believe that a month is enough time for Joe Surfer to change its habits. What I'm expecting to see is the usual pre-austin traffic coming from G and less traffic from dmoz and some other portal sites, that rank above me just because they link to me. So I mean not exactly the volume of the traffic.
No matter how G changes the algo, a realy good site can not suffer much. In fact the traffic to one of my sites that dropped from the SERPs remained the same as volume, becouse the first SERPs were full of pages that link to it. The only thing Joe Surfer had to do is click one more time. I believe that's the case not only with my site, but with lots of others.
So the change I'm expecting to see is in the structure of the traffic. I guess in other industries it's a matter of volume anyway...

Steveb,
-> Google has been at its best for the past three months
Would you please give us at least one clue that proves u right?

-> just made Google a couple billion dollars
Do you realy believe the current algo updates mean anything to Joe Investor? Please explain that too, as if you are right, the others are missing some very important points. Thanks!

[sloney]

GG

I would be most grateful if you could tell me if the 64 **** index will apppear as it stands now or whether Google will change it in any other way before it appears on co.uk

Thank you for your time and help it is much appreciated.

[cbpayne]

64 **** index will apppear as it stands now

Hasn't he confirmed that more than once already in this thread (I think)

[mistah]

uh oh, the spammy site is back.

Google seems to have filtered out their multiple keyword-stuffed domain names e.g kw1_kw2.com, kw3_k4.com, but now they rank highly for <snip> because they have multiple identical pages with identical copy, but the following filename structure:

<snip>

Actually, they were probably doing this all along, but I only just noticed it because Brandy has removed the first level of spam to reveal the next level.

So, Brandy seems to be a big step in the right direction.

[edited by: Marcia at 10:24 pm (utc) on Feb. 14, 2004]
[edit reason] Not even near to specifics, please. [/edit]

[bekyed]

There are significant differences in the UK from what i am seeing with AOL and google serps, this is not finished yet.

Bek.

[Noximus]

have you seen PR update?

[Hissingsid]

There are significant differences in the UK from what i am seeing with AOL and google serps, this is not finished yet.

As far as I can see it hasn't started yet!

Aol = 216

WWW WWW2 and WWW3 are all still Austin

.co.uk is still Austin

64 is the best SERPs I've seen in a long while!

I think we need to be patient ;)

Sid

[bull]

There is partially click tracking on 64.233.161.99

[simon03]

"Reminds me of New Coke and Coke Classic - I think Coke Classic is back on the shelves."

I'd say this is more like Vanilla Coke, here today, gone tomorrow.

[Ledfish]

Just saw the new stuff in www from my location. Then the next minute it was gone. Looks like the change is spreading. Funny thing is my traffic for the last 12 hours is down slightly, not bad, might be because of other factors like Valentine Day.

[claus]

Overall this tweak looks okay to me. As this is "just" an algo tweak and no new data has been added, my most important pages haven't moved much, but nevermind - other pages have and i'm glad to see happy faces in an update thread for a change.

I've got a feeling that this marks something new - ie. that we will now see two kinds of updates run semi-independently; "algo tweak updates" and "data feed updates", the real update being the latter one.

So perhaps we'll have to use two types of update names, eg "alcohol names" and "location names"? ;)

[edited by: claus at 1:29 pm (utc) on Feb. 14, 2004]

[fabfurs]

Different results from 64.233.161.99 depending on location.

I have access to two physical locations simultaniously; One the IP originates in Quebec Canada and the other in NY State. When I search on the exact same term (not regional in nature) at nearly the identical moment I get different results from 64.233.161.99.

I check the results for some kind of regional results but both sets of results provide sites not regionally located.

So are we all seeing different results than what our potential visitors would?

[Ruben]

My site dropped a lot after this update. I have significant less visitors while i have a big content site, with lots of pages. My other site disappeared completely, while before Florida it ranked the first page. Now i hear a lot of people saying that the results are almost pre-Florida. For me it isn't :(

[mikeD]

noticed all the amazon clone sites are back in. And people said this update was better :(

[CuriousMusing]

Is there a PR update too in this change too. No PR change for two of my sites.

And there is one site, that G indexed in October, has around 400 back links, but still the site is not fully spidered nor is there a PR.

Is anyone seeing any change in PR in this update?