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Everybody hates spam, and I can see a Via6ra ad a mile away. Out of all of those, one actually made me laugh however. It was entitled (get ready)
"Supersize your (you name it)" .. something like that.
Kudos to ONE spammer who made me laugh. The rest can rot in hell.
Matt
If i want to order viagra i search "buy, best price order viagra" or similar. So the results are ok?
When I get .edu I get annoyed..I don't want the friggin chem formula, ..can't you read g...I want to buy the friggin stuff.
So how is google supposed to handle a search query for "viagra"
OK, maybe a bad example but you must get the idea.
But if a guy is not wanting to buy, all he/she needs is "chemical formula viagra" and then all you get is directories ;-)
Yep rele~vant is the optimum phrase; if you need advise on searching please pm me -;))
So how is google supposed to handle a search query for "viagra"OK, maybe a bad example but you must get the idea.
Actually, it's a pretty good example, and the answer is simple:
Because Google's stated mission is to "organize the Web's information and make it universally accessible," the default behavior should be to provide information results such as the manufacturer's official Web site, FDA factsheets, articles or academic studies, etc.
(If the search were performed with Froogle, one would expect commercial results.)
When you make a request to Google, load balancers route your request to one of a number of data centres. Each nominally keeps a full index, but the various data centres often get slightly out of step. What you're seeing is almost certainly this effect, and it means that your site hasn't made it in its entirety to all the data centres yet.
Relax - it will happen, but may take some time.
DerekH
wellzy
Sites bouncing in and out; some duplicate listings; I've seen these two plenty of times, but this bizarro display and numbering is a new one.
I have a fantasy that Google is squeezing the old index onto fewer servers, so as to make room for a rebuilt index that is driven by different software. It happens gradually, server by server. So far we're still seeing what remains of the old index. At some point they'll switch over to the new index on the new software, when enough servers are loaded and tested, and then the old index will be wiped to free up the remaining servers. Then we'll all live happily ever after.
But I'm probably wrong....
Can someone tell me if 3 or 4 of their pages show up on google at a certain time and then 2 hours later 3 or 4 other pages show up and the other 3 or 4 pages are gone?
The last time I saw Google do this was 11/27/03 to 12/12/03 and I believe it's a major update in progress. I've been waiting for someone else to notice and post about it. :)
I believe it's a major update in progress
Looks that way to me, I'm seeing some serious changes on our SERPS; I just hope they keep changing - the way they are just now is a little unpleasant!
Im getting these results on google.com more often than not.
The last day or so I've noticed distinct serps changes for what has been very stable serps. I'll be surprised if this isnt the start of some kind of shake-up.
Apart from the google toolbar, where else can you check a site's PR?
Do a search for Proogle.
Mc
First time posting, but I've been lurking for years ;-)
Someone's quote below asked:
"Can someone tell me if 3 or 4 of their pages show up on google at a certain time and then 2 hours later 3 or 4 other pages show up and the other 3 or 4 pages are gone?"
The reason for this behavior is that Google uses multiple databases/data centers to serve up results to queries on an "availability" basis.
Imagine this scenario: You have a large dynamic site and want to keep your content up to date. You have redundant databases and are continually pulling one or more offline for cleaning, updating and maintenance, and your other databases take over.
Then, once the offline db's are cleaned, they are swapped in and others are pulled for maintenance.
This is why your listings seem to change several times daily in google.
On one of my sites I have over 1000 pages in google's index and sometimes when I check to see how many there are, I find that the numbers fluctuate by + or - 100 or more throughout the day.
Not trying to be cocky here - the recent pr update came as no surprise to me after watching google's behavior leading up to it. I've been doing seo under an alias for 7 years and spotted the trend.
My prediction for the next 8-10 weeks is that google will be doing some major "shifting" of search results and there will be a lot of headaches and heartaches for webmasters as a result.
My advice? Go the "natural" seo route and continually update your site with original content, use good internal linking and add one way back links to the new content yourself by:
1. Posting on topic in forums related to the content and leaving good anchor text as a sig with the url to your pages.
2. Commenting and doing trackbacks with your blog or cms.
3. posting articles in the proper categories of article databases and make sure the article is not the same as the page you're linking to in your resource box (google may see it as duplicate content)
4. Image optimization using the link "title" in tags and naming the image properly...
Etc.
Hope this helps!
Paul Short
GetBlogs.com
