Review on the New Google Update – Big Daddy – New year special Bigdaddy

Review of New Google Update

Big Daddy:

Matt Google’s senior engineer has asked for feedback on the new results which were live on test datacenters 64.233.179.104 , 64.233.179.99 etc,

Matt cutts has asked semiofficially for feedback to their new index, Currently the new results are live on http://66.249.93.104 , http://66.249.93.99 etc, the 66.249 range is steady and is showing new results from 1st of January 2006, Even as matt said 64.233.179.104 will also be the test DC we don’t see that datacenter to be a steady one, Test results come and go in that particular DC,

Seeing the results on the test DC we see many issues fixed ,

1. Better Logical arrangement of sites in site: and domain only search,

Whether deliberately or by mistake google was unable to logically arrange site: search and domain only search, Homepage has been the most important page for many sites and google buried homepage when doing site:domain.com search or through domain only search, Now in the new datacenter we see a better logical arrangement of sites and pages in sites are listed in proper order compared to other Datacenters, Yahoo has been excellent in arranging site: search for a site, they show the best URL arrangement, Yahoo still shows best arrangement of pages for a site: search, Google has been known to hide many good information from end users, especially the link: search for a site, Google purposely shows less than 5% of links through link: search confusing many webmasters, so probably they do the same with site: search but atleast they have a fix for the homepage in the New big daddy datacenters’

2. Removal of URL only entries / URL only supplemental.

For a very long time Google has been showing URL only listing in SERPs( search engine result pages ) for some sites, Most possibly reasons for URL only listings / supplement results are duplicate pages across a site or across sites, pages which doesn’t have any link to it, Pages which are once crawl able but later not crawl able, pages which no longer exists, pages which were not crawled by google for a very long time possibly because of some sort of automated penalty, pages which was once crawled well but due to some web host problems is not crawlable by search engines, redirect URLs etc, It seems Google has fixed this major issue, URL only listings don’t add value to google’s index and good that it has been removed from the search results, Though we see some supplement pages hanging around here and there most of those pages seem to be caused by duplicate content across sites,

Recently google is very severe on duplicate contents especially syndicating articles, if there are lot of copies of same articles published across sites google makes some of the duplicate copies supplement results, Only these results seem to stick in the new DC other than that no supplement results are found,

For example this is the result of the main www.google.com DC
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Result in updated Datacenter New DC: 66.249.93.104 ( Verified )

Good indexing of pages for a site:

Recently google has been showing vague page counts for sites they indexed, For one site we work google has been showing 16,000 pages indexed where as the site itself doesnt have more than 1000 pages, But the new DC shows only 550 pages indexed which is a good sign, And all the 550 pages are unique pages without supplementals and we can expect them to rank soon, this is a very good improvement, we have seen the same accuracy across many sites we monitor, the new DC gives much better page counts,

Better URL canonicalization:

We see big improvement of google’s understanding of the www and non-www version, we have checked it across a lot of sites, for example for the search dmoz.org and www.dmoz.org google lists only one version of the site that is dmoz.org, before they show one version URL only and the other one real since it causes a lot of duplicate issues, we see the same fix across sites we monitor, Most of the results are now very good due to google handling redirects pretty well, that is a very good sign for a lot of sites, best advantage are IIS hosted sites which don’t have .htaccess site, lots of sites were unable to to 301 redirect to any one version of the URL, either www or non-www now they don’t have to do that google can understand that both URLs are same for a site,

Better handling of 302 redirects:

the new datacenter is doing well in handling sneaky 302 redirects which used to confuse googlebot a lot, there has been numorous discussions on this 302 redirect issue, google has been closely monitoring this problem and finally they came out with a good fix in the new big daddy update DCs,

For example check here,

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nigerianspam

you can see the page of anybrowser.com having the same title as nigerianspam homepage

http://66.249.93.104/search?hl=en&lr=&q=nigerianspam&btnG=Search

you can see the page of anybrowser.com having the same title as nigerianspam homepage is removed / missing

Pagerank of canonical problem URLs not fixed,

Google has not fixed the pagerank of sites with canonicalization, Hope it will be fixed in the coming dates,

some jump scripts which uses 302 redirects are not fixed,

hope it will improve soon, example:

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=inurl:www.searchenginegenie.com+-site:www.searchenginegenie.com&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N

Search Relevancy not accurate both in current results and new DC,

When we searched for DVD ( digital versatile disc ) in google we found google.co.uk ( google’s UK regional domain ) ranking in top 5, that is too bad google doesnt have anything to do with DVD, we hope it will be fixed soon,

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=dvd

http://66.249.93.104/search?hl=en&lr=&q=dvd

Possible duplication caused by new improved page indexing by google,

Google used to have 101 kb indexing limit for a page, now they relaxed that limit and they can crawl more than 500 kb, But it seems the 101 kb limitation index is still available and is visible often is search, we see it across our client sites, here is an example on wikepedia page:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22en.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

Not fixed in new datacenter too,

http://66.249.93.104/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22en.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

That is all for review now more review will follow soon,

SEO Blog Team,

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