Google Backlink Update in 216.239.39.104 datacenter

Google Backlink Update is happening in this datacenter of google, 216.239.39.104, As we know google has been showing only a sample number of backlinks in the link: command for a while, Now the same thing continues too, This backlink update is similar to the recent backlink updates ( showing only a sample list of backlink data ),

This google back link update is first reported in webmasterworld.com

webmasterworld.com/forum3/26815.htm

Interesting post Google guy about difference in google directory Pagerank and the google toolbar pagerank

Recently I came across an interesting post by google guy, He agrees the Directory pagerank scale and the Toolbar pagerank scale are different,

This is an extract from his interesting post in forums.searchenginewatch.com

Quirk 4: “toolbar PageRank and directory PageRank can differ by up to two

units”. Given that the toolbar and the directory go up to different maximum

values (10 and 8, yah?), and that in a fully incremental index, updates can

happen asynchronously in one area like the directory compared to the toolbar

display, this wouldn’t surprise me an iota.

Your will be interested in seeing the other quirkes too,

Source: forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?p=23150#post23150

Google Guy AKA Matt Cutts voice powerful in google

Google guy recently replied to a poster that he will tell his webmaster to change the information displayed on the features.html page,

That page on google site said the link: command shows all links pointing to a site, Now he made his webmaster change the wordings to the following information, immediately the information was changed to the following,

Who Links To You?

Some words, when followed by a colon, have

special meanings to Google. One such word for Google is the link: operator. The

query link:siteURL shows you pages that point to that URL. For example,

link:www.google.com will show you pages that point to Google’s home page. You

cannot combine a link: search with a regular keyword search.

Source: http://www.google.com/help/features.html

This is what he replied after his webmaster made the necessary changes,

Actually, I think the page has already been changed:

google.com/features.html now just says that it returns links, not “all links”

like it did before. I dropped an email to our webmaster last night after this

thread pointed it out, and I think they managed to change it this

morning.(Thanks to folks for pointing it out, by the way..)

Google Guy as I have always believed is an important person in google company, After lot of research evidence points to Matt Cutts, According to me he is the Googleguy who posts in webmasterworld.com and searchenginewatch.com

Google Guy’s take on link: command returning random backlinks in google,

Google Guy’s take on the useless backlink command, Here is a small snippet taken from the original posting by him in search engine watch forums

Google doesn’t return all backlinks in response to a link: command. In the ancient days, it was because there was a finite amount of storage space on the machines that served link: requests. So we only kept the backlinks for the top N pages. Later as we moved to a different indexing system, we kept backlinks for the top M% of pages. This was helpful for important pages, but it meant that Mom and Pop sites with lower PageRank wouldn’t have as good a chance to see their backlinks.

source: forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=2423&page=2

Google, Microsoft no longer ‘more evil than satan’

People have heared of Googlebombs for a long time, Now there is a new kind of anchor text bombing call the MSN Bomb,

Usually google bombing or anchor text bombing is the method of adding a particular keyword or phrase in anchor text and making a particular site rank, There are some bloggers involved in this,

After the launch of MSN beta search it showed sites like microsoft and google on top of the searches for ‘more evil’ and more evil than satan, It was a bit frustrating for many users, Now MSN search has been fixed,

This is what they say on their blogs,

As mentioned in a previous post on this blog, we recently received our
first few MSN Bombs. One of these was the phrase “more evil than satan”,
which brought up both Google and Microsoft in the top 10 results. A number
of you sent us feedback on this. Well, we just pushed out our latest round of
automated relevance improvements and they changed the results. Now neither
Google nor Microsoft rank in the top 10 any more for this particular
query. Our algorithm changed its mind. Just so you know (since I’m sure
you’ll ask), this wasn’t a targeted change. We are constantly refining our
ranking algorithms to produce the best, most accurate results, so changes like
this happen all the time. Finally, for the record, we won’t be commenting
on the ranking of individual results from here on out. The algorithm
decides! Feel free to send us feedback.

Weird posting by Googleguy,

I saw a weird posting by googleguy in the MSN beta review thread in webmasterworld.com, We know googleguy is there to help people on what is happening with google search, He usually wont reveal important things but definitely reveals some stuff which are useful,

But Google guy also has a good sense of humour, He sometimes try to divert people from manipulating their search engine, This particular post looks like that,

As far as I can tell, the launch today is moving their newest technology from techpreview.search.msn.com to beta.search.msn.com. According to Walt Mossberg at the Wall Street Journal, MSN has promised to move their new technology over to the main search box by the end of January. That’s less than 2.5 months, so I recommend that everyone spend their full attention coming up to speed on beta.search.msn.com.
It’s very rare to get to see a search engine in transition, because that’s the best time to see what the different criteria are for ranking.
Do you see their three sliders? They are for “Very popular vs. less popular”, “Exact match vs. approximate match”, and “static vs. updated recently.” It’s really cool to play with these sliders. I’m sure that a lot of WebmasterWorld moderators are off tweaking values to get an idea of how things are computed, and what the relative weight are. For example, if you move the slider all the way to very popular and click search again–viagra.com disappears from the first page! That’s a little counterintuitive to me, and it makes for some really interesting speculation about what Microsoft means by popular.
Most search engine optimizers will be fascinated by the ability to play with sliders and try to reverse-engineer how Microsoft is ranking. Not since Nutch have people gotten such a good view at the different components in ranking for a major search engine. Because of that and the fact the MSN has promised their new search will go live by January, I’d get busy playing. 🙂
Here’s one other tidbit I came across while reading this morning. Following on Google and Yahoo’s launch of blogs, MSN has launched a blog for its search engine as well: blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch Highly recommended reading–they’ve got comments enabled, too. I’ve really enjoyed playing with the new search, and I’d recommend that everyone spend 2-3 days getting familiar with how MSN is ranking pages–I think the effort will pay off.

Everyone who is aware of google guy will definitely understand googleguy is upto something in this post, From what I can see he wants to deceive some dumb SEOs, Definitely he cannot play with the smart ones,

The slider feature is an excellent feature from MSN search engine, Google guy should be really afraid that they don’t have that feature, He comments on the viagra authority site not ranking with the slider is increased to most popular, From my Opinion the obvious weight search engines have on backlink anchor text is same with MSN, Googleguy knows it that is what he is trying to say from his post,

Google’s index nearly doubles – google now indexing 8,058,044,651 web pages

An extract from google’s own blog,

The documents in Google’s index are in dozens of file types from HTML to PDF, including PowerPoint, Flash, PostScript and JavaScript. Together these pages represent a good chunk of the world’s information, but hardly all of it. That’s why we keep building more advanced systems for crawling the web and creating more sophisticated indices to sort what we find. So 8 billion pages is a milestone worth noting, but it’s not the end of the road. The real test is how well we do in finding what you want from within those pages. We’ll keep improving that too.

Read more here,:

google.com/googleblog/2004/11/googles-index-nearly-doubles.html

Google Advertising Professionals

Google announces the new professional Adwords program, The following information is obtained from their website,

Designed for professionals who currently manage or want to manage multiple AdWords client accounts, the Google Advertising Professionals program can help you become a more successful ad manager – for free.

Read more here,

adwords.google.com/select/ProfessionalWelcome

Google’s cache showing indexed date as 1969

Today, when I was checking the cache of some pages on my site, I saw a weird thing google is showing the cache date as 1969, totally weird,

Advanced link checking strategies in MSN, yahoo google,

Advanced back link checking strategy in google, MSN yahoo,

http://www.searchenginegenie.com/backlink-strategies.htm