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[Ruud]

http://www.isedb.com...=reviews&id=663

...we are not so sure this is a full-scale change in the way Google ranks websites. We are fairly certain this is an extension of the new algorithm now known as "Florida". Furthermore, we think Florida was actually introduced in June 2003, used for about a week and re-introduced on November 16. This would co-relate with a week of upset in the early summer.

Ruud

[qwerty]

The datacenters accessible by the Google Dance Tool are all either down or have changed their IP addresses. Along with the loss of access to the various datacenters, SEOs can no longer trust results shown at WWW2.google.com and WWW3.google.com to detail a fairly accurate description of future SERPs. These datacenters have not displayed any major discrepancies for the past few weeks.

Has anyone noticed something funky going on with the API database as well? I use the Digitalpoint tool to track about 60 keywords on a regular basis, and I've been getting N/A in my results for more than half of the queries. I don't know if that's related to the update or not.

[Leann_Pass]

Querty, when I try to check on all data centers at once, I get nada. Looks like they have to be checked one at a time.

Does it have anything to do with the Update? ...Of course! It's part of the conspiracy! LOL

I do know that the foriegn data centers are still not updated. At least the ones I've checked. .es looks identicle to pre-gladys to me.

[keli]

We are fairly certain this is an extension of the new algorithm now known as "Florida".

That's what I've thought all along.. great article. It's just doing its Godzilla romp through other industries.

[eloc]

Way to go Ruud! I appreciate the resource to! My sponge(gray matter) always needs more info on the game!

[thfc1afc0]

Has anyone noticed something funky going on with the API database as well? I use the Digitalpoint tool to track about 60 keywords on a regular basis, and I've been getting N/A in my results for more than half of the queries. I don't know if that's related to the update or not.

Yep I use the same tool, last week had a load of top terms be listed as N/A a quick search on Google and they were all listed. They have all since come back, not that they had actaully disappeared anyway.

[Grumpus]

We are fairly certain this is an extension of the new algorithm now known as "Florida".

I'm fairly certain that every update extends the algo from the previous update.

What we're seeing isn't so much an algo change, I don't think, but rather, it's a regular update (new pages going in, PR being calculated, etc.) combined with the infusion of a more recent and robust comparitive database (the database that contains the semantical stuff, the stemming type sort of thing (an offshoot of the semantics), and other static page and topic relational data).

The end result (stuff dancing wildly - even more so than we are normally used to) is the same, but it's not a major extension of an algo, but rather a major improvement (size and datawise, if not end-resultwise) in the compartive database.

G.