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[Jill]

Welcome Chris and Rusty!

Chris, I hear ya on the weather here in Mass. Brrrrrr!

Jill

[Ruud]

Who needs computer games when you have this?!?! This is the first change I follow and for some strange reason it is super intriguing!

Only problem is that in most company it makes for really bad conversation material

Ruud

[OldWelshGuy]

It is insane to think that a math Algo based on keyword density, page rank, anchor text, backlinks could ever determine what is valid and genuine content

I agree, and so do Google, and that, IMO is why they made their purchases last year. Semantics will force people to be relevant or die. natural language elements in the Google algo will make things a lot better, but it is going to take some time in getting there.

this is especially true in a language like English which is subjected to national variations (vacation US = Holiday UK) etc, and worse still a living language, eg
'gay' used to mean happy and jolly, then meant lesbian or homosexual, and now in the UK means not cool, unhip, not trendy. 'I know having a wallet is gay, but i can't manage without it'

[thx1138]

I don't want to be accused of sour grapes, but in the field that I operate, delivery of flowers within the UK I can say, I think without prejudice, that the current results are considerably poorer than they were pre-Florida. The results now are highly populated with directory sites offering affiliate links (many broken or misleading,) this is not what the user wants. Wake up Google.... quickly.

[Jill]

Ummm...'scuse me guys, but you all do realize that when Google updates that it takes many days before sites will be where ever they will be?

Your best bet is not even to look for a few more days if you have a weak stomach. A site/page missing at this moment means pretty much nothing.

Same for brand new high rankings.

Jill

[BrianR]

I think that THE job to be getting into with regard new Google, has to be SEO copywriting, as Google seems now to be trying , more than ever for natural language results.

Arrrr - it warms the cockles of this SEO copywriter's heart to hear you say that, OWG!

Bring it on, Google!

BrianR

[Dyan]

I've seen many threads talking about Florida or pre-Florida, but I don't have a clue what you're talking about. Can someone explain this or maybe point me to a thread or article about it?

Thanks

[ImVickieB]

The Florida reference refer to the last big google shake up from before Christmas

http://www.highranki...?showtopic=1964 Is the link to the 93 page thread.


Happy reading!

[William Cutting]

Has anyone named this indexing yet? Anyone have a guess what the name will be?

November was Florida. January is what?

[keli]

I've noticed that a LOT (7 of em) of Google datacenters are *down*, *not responding*, *insert your term here* - what's up with that???

In particular:

www-va
www-dc
www-ab
www-cw
www-fi
www-gv
www-kr
www-lm

Anyone else seeing this?


Keli

[Dyan]

Thanks. I'm finding this to be VERY interesting reading.

You see, I launched my site around Febuary 2003. And while it was never burning up the net with traffic coming in, I had a nice steady flow and it seemed to be building nicely. Then I had an odd increase (major increase) in October that I still can't find a reason for. And sometime around November, though I really noticed it the second week of December............ nothin'! My traffic dropped to virtually nothing. If it drops any further, I will be down to NOTHING.

My site was in Google (still is, I think), though I never gave a second thought to rankings. It was enough to see people finding me and knowing that Google knew I existed, so all was good. If they changed around the same time that my site died, I have to wonder if there isn't a connection here.

[keli]

Curious... this *seems* like the FU but! trickling out a bit... perviously untouched (by the Nov FU) markets I optimize for are now being hammered. All my attorneys have fallen off the Google map yet still doing well, or better, everywhere else. Could it be that the FU is taking its time to affect all markets/industries in the index? It's all a bunch of DMOZ, directories and other strange, unrelated results. Too early to draw hard conslusion, just thought I'd point out what I'm seeing.

[Jill]

Has anyone named this indexing yet? Anyone have a guess what the name will be?

The people over at WebmasterWorld dream up the silly names....

You can probably find out over there.

I think I'll call it...hmm...Gladys. Yes, Gladys.

Jill

[Grumpus]

Keli - those datacenters have been vanishing one by one for a while. I suspect that they aren't gone, but rather that they've stopped us from being able to muscle our way onto the one we chose to look at as we watch the dance. Then again, I could be wrong. I'm just guessing there.

They have been going away one by one for a while now, though.

G.

[powerofeyes]

Has anyone named this indexing yet? Anyone have a guess what the name will be?

WebmasterWorld people were very quick to name it Update "Austin" Jan 24 2003, But this time Brett was clever of making some money, he took the discussion into the Webmaster Supporters forum where we have pay to read them ,
And yes all the Datacentres are there, But googleguy said the DNS aliases have been removed to prevent our use,