Comments on: Not Quite Caffeine – This is like Google Light

By: Clifford Bryan

Clifford Bryan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:15:03 +0000

You can check here. Looks like more than a third are still not on. Interestingly there were more DC’s that showed pagerank for my site a few days ago. Looks like Google is taking 3 forward and two backwards steps on roll out.

By: Clifford Bryan

Clifford Bryan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:10:19 +0000

Give it time. It’s still rolling out. Do a multi datacenter pagerank check to see if all DC’s have your site or other people you know updated at all centers. I’m thinking end of the month, full speed ahead.

By: John at Website Building biz

John at Website Building biz — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:30:53 +0000

Specifically, Reddit brought it my attention that searching for __Epic beard guy dramatica__ doesn’t actually show the Epic Beard Guy article on Encyclopedia Dramatica. It will take you to hundreds of websites linking to the article in question, but it won’t show the specific page we’re obviously searching for.

So I would say this tweak has gone way too far already and is interfering with the quality of searches. Somehow, I escaped the hit, so I’m not sure exactly what is getting slapped.

Maybe since they’re so focused on their new social searches, that they’ve tried to separate the net into multiple indexes?

By: tradeshow ninja

tradeshow ninja — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:25:00 +0000

hi John,
I just checked your search “Mike site:www.facebook.com” here in California, and got 7,920,000. So if it used to yield 248 million results, it is definately a lot smaller now. The question would be if it is temporary or permanent, and whether they’ve just gotten rid of excess bathwater, or if they’ve tossed a few babies as well?
I have seen some “weird” results lately. Maybe a storm is a brewin’.
Steve, tradeshow ninja