Nonsense! That shirt is awesome! I picked one up myself along with his Snakes on a Plane shirt a few weeks ago. I’ve already had long conversations about who would win the ultimate battle.

What I’m realy want to know is, why does a DC have like 4/5 pages indexed of a website on one day and on the other day ( mostly weekends ), the same DC has like 10/11 pages indexed. Are those fluctuations in the results due to the CD updates or are those differences of some other nature? Also if I see half od DC have 4/5 pages indexed and the other half have 10/11 pages indexed of a website, should I look forward to see the higher indexed DC to get a lover page index number, or should those DC with a lover number get a higher number during the next few days.

Thanks for sharing these videos with us. The information given in these videos are really great. But it’s taking too much time for buffering may be due to heavy size of video. The buffering at the slow internet connection for this video is really tough. If possible then please make optimized version for the low bandwidth users also.

Thanks again for the cool stuff.

You make a good point but I guess where I differ is that I just don’t think Google would be concerned with bending the truth on this issue if will help them continue to heavily trust backlinks. Can you see the headlines: “Google lies to SEO specialists about search algorithm weights applied to EDU and GOV links, crediablity crumbles, stocks plummet.” An extreme example I know, but you get what I thinking.

@Adam

Scoring links from these sites is a good ranking heuristics, a rule of thumb, it’s not perfect but it’s a lot better than nothing. Last time I checked business decisions aren’t meant to be logical, they’re meant to be profitable, sometimes you get both, sometimes not.

Thank you both for commenting on this topic.

@Adam:
“Not all government sites and educational sites have some variant of a .gov or .edu TLD”

So because Google can’t track all these sites with 100% accuracy, they just give up on the whole idea. I don’t think so.

Why not? You’ve made the statement…now back it up with something concrete and logical.

There are ways of handling public relations which do not involve outright lies. Outright lies are a foolish risk. If a company, government or other body is caught in a lie, damage to its reputation can be massive. Trust may never be reestablished. That might not matter to some fly-by-night operator who will pop up under another name, but reputation and goodwill are vital to those who are in operation for the long haul.

Outright lies about Google’s algorithm would be just plain stupid. It is totally unneccessary. Matt simply does not respond to queries that pertain to Google’s ’secret sauce’ or he explains that he cannot go further into a particular topic. We have seen that over and over.

Yet you believe that in this instance Matt has changed his pattern of behaviour and is telling an outright lie for no good reason. If the question about .edu had been too sensitive, Matt could simply have ignored it. Instead he took the opportunity to correct a popular myth.