Yet Another Google Shake-up
Word on the street is that another Google algorithm change is in the works for this month or next. This one's being called BigDaddy. Stupid name. Let's hope Google sticks to their guns against the government and doesn't become BigBrother.
What can you expect? Mainly another shifting and resettling of your web site search engine ranking on Google.
Google does several updates to their algorithms (the programming behind the search results) each year, and as far as I'm concerned, well-designed sites with fresh content always rise back to the top--eventually. So look for some shifting in your rankings again over the next couple months.
What interested me most about this article was the explanation of the Google Data Centers and different search results displayed simultaneously to different viewers.
While most of us probably think of Google as this giant data bank somewhere under the California sun with thousands of techies working feverishly to feed the machines that hold the entire Internet search results in their bellies, it's not an accurate visualization.
Google has several Data Centers around the country (the world?) that run and produce search results simultaneously. Like any network, updating them is not synchronous. If you've ever installed a new computer network, you know how it goes. First the server is brought online, then each work station is added in turn.
What this can mean is that during the update the results you see on your machine at your place of work may not be the results I see on my machine in my office, even though we are only a few miles apart. The article predicts which set of rankings will reflect the final outcome of the BigDaddy update, but I have to disagree. Who but Google knows which results set is the latest?
So if you check, and I hope you do, you may see some differences in the Search Engine Ranking report you receive from CD WebMaker and your own search results. I'd love to hear from you if that's the case, but don't worry, I think the Google dust will once again settle long enough to bring the results in line across the board.
At least until the next update... Link
What can you expect? Mainly another shifting and resettling of your web site search engine ranking on Google.
Google does several updates to their algorithms (the programming behind the search results) each year, and as far as I'm concerned, well-designed sites with fresh content always rise back to the top--eventually. So look for some shifting in your rankings again over the next couple months.
What interested me most about this article was the explanation of the Google Data Centers and different search results displayed simultaneously to different viewers.
While most of us probably think of Google as this giant data bank somewhere under the California sun with thousands of techies working feverishly to feed the machines that hold the entire Internet search results in their bellies, it's not an accurate visualization.
Google has several Data Centers around the country (the world?) that run and produce search results simultaneously. Like any network, updating them is not synchronous. If you've ever installed a new computer network, you know how it goes. First the server is brought online, then each work station is added in turn.
What this can mean is that during the update the results you see on your machine at your place of work may not be the results I see on my machine in my office, even though we are only a few miles apart. The article predicts which set of rankings will reflect the final outcome of the BigDaddy update, but I have to disagree. Who but Google knows which results set is the latest?
So if you check, and I hope you do, you may see some differences in the Search Engine Ranking report you receive from CD WebMaker and your own search results. I'd love to hear from you if that's the case, but don't worry, I think the Google dust will once again settle long enough to bring the results in line across the board.
At least until the next update... Link
posted by CD WebMaker - Wednesday, February 08, 2006
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