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[nedguy]

Hi Well,

You've not been catching up on your reading lately have you?

Suggest you make some tea/coffee, take the phone off the hook, and start reading about 'Gladys' in the Search Engine News threads.

Nedguy

[Jill]

If you don't keep searching at Google every hour or every minute, you won't see it either!

Jill

[SearchRank]

You could be seeing different results because your results and your clients are coming from different data centers. I do see this happen from time to time and it has also been discussed in the forum in various threads.

[BrianR]

Well - the only thing you can do about Google at the moment is sit back and chill while they fix it - no seriously!

BrianR

[raj_freind]

you not mention one thing that you searching your search term in http://www.google.co.il/ or http://www.google.com or what your client using for search?

Might be posible that you are getting result from diffierent data center and your client getting result from diffierent data center.

You know that how google's back end process?

Do you know google have several data centers in several country. Whenever you type the query, google search the terms their data center (no one know which data center) and produce the result and time by time google update their every data center thaty we get different result sometime (when google change their data center for pick up the result).

Last google updation known by florida update (when google updating their florida data center) and currently google update the austin data center. Same rule google apply for country data center.

G also produce result from local data center when we use local search option.

[OldWelshGuy]

I had a client in London who got different results to those I was looking at on a live basis. I got him to copy & paste the results url, he did, and we still got different datacentre results.

We did a quick 'round the globe' search check for this term on here a few weeks back and there were two sets of results coming up from the various datacentres.

IMO it is just google working through things to get them right.

[Jill]

How do we know that this isn't the way Google wants it to happen?

There are more than 10 relevant results for any search query, so perhaps they want different ones to show at any given time.

This may not be something to "wait out" but "the way."

Unless you're the powers at be at Google, I'm not sure we really know for sure.

As a side note, I happened upon the Directory of Search Quality's profile at Orkut last night. He appears to be quite the smart geek! Seems to me he should be taking the heat for all this! (Interestingly enough, he created a computer program to create the world's longest palindrome.)

[raj_freind]

Hi jill

I am really glad to know that who is the #1 member in your forum, You are #2 - right.

[dotcommon]

The reason I would think that this rapid change around of Google results is Google trying to work out a new system, rather than as suggested below perhaps the way google wants to play things in the future, is that this seems to go in waves. i am not usually so in touch with google rankings, but i have just posted a new site and have been watching quite intently. about 2 weeks ago the results were changing between 2 sets of results before they finally settled on the 2nd, new set of results. in the past few days, they have changed to a third set, but only very briefly.

I have to say that, although the 2nd set of results were much less commercial than the former set, it has thrown up some strange results that I cant quite ununerstand I don't think the results improved much. the new third set that keeps occassionally appear does seem to improve the set, gibing bigger, more informative sites.

At one point during the big changing around a couple of weeks ago, my partner and i kept checking on 2 computers next to each other, coming up with different results. very odd!

[Jill]

I am really glad to know that who is the  #1 member in your forum, You are #2 - right.

#1 is my secret member.

And welcome, Dotcommon! I like that name.

Jill

[nuttakorn]

What do you think about the ranking right now? or google may improve the ranking by using full of new algorithms. I think, this time google doesn't use full of new algorithms.

[dotcommon]

Although I think that some of the sites which disappeared from the front page of my key search term, Kefalonia (Greek island) should have disappeared, I think a few of the best sites also disappeared. One company, which sells accommodation and hotels, had rankings 2,3 and 4 for this search term without that much information about the island. the sites were almost identical, apart from the front page. So I think it right that they should have disappeared off the face of the earth. They clearly were part of a links farm having just hundreds of irrelevant links.

however, the site which was at number 1 slot was actually very useful - a site where people left rankings and comments about resorts, beaches, well everything on the island. what it has been replaced by is reaally quite bizarre and I am completely flumoxed as to how it has got there. it appears to have very few backlinks, very little text, is really quite a small crap site. in fact it doesnt even have meta descrption and its not in the dmoz directory.


so in short, some things that should have disappeared have but some things that were good have gone too and I am really not sure the results have improved.

I have a horrible feling that it is dynamic sites that are being punished as the this is all I can see in common about several of the major sites that have disappeared. i hope not as we have just posted a dynamic database site.