Comments on: State of the Index, November 2009

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:40:07 +0000

Went through your slides and have to say that I cannot imaging what the current state of computing would have been without google, as it brought about a revolution. Each and every service they provide to the users are open source and free. Its fantastic!

By: Bryan Robinson

Bryan Robinson — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:21:25 +0000

Matt,

I hate to post this negativity in response to the ‘state of the index’ but there is a horrendous, disgusting Barnes and Noble album result coming up for the keyword Swords at the top of the adwords column. The album is called ‘Pink Swords – Shut Up and Take It’. It shows an illustrated cover with a half naked woman and a man with a plunger over her face. I don’t have to explain what this album cover and name represents, but I should hope this is a huge mistake and it should be removed as soon as possible.

We adwords advertisers do not need totally unrelated, filthy, disgusting ads popping up, interfering with our campaigns and offending people all over.

Thanks.

By: gman

gman — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:48:33 +0000

I watched your slides, very useful and so I went and installed Page Speed FF plugin (nice!).

One of things I optimized according to this is Expires for various file types (gif,etc).

My question/concern: Does googlebot take advantage of this header information for both consideration of performance (as reported in webmasters) and to reduce spider bandwidth?

Thanks

By: Serge Lachapelle

Serge Lachapelle — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:45:48 +0000

I am realy amazed by the social networking search experiment. There’s something there I think, probably the biggest potential for improving the index. Sidewiki is quite interesting too, you can easily imagine a combination of those factors…it will be interesting to see the evolution of the index in the next few years….

Exiting times…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:45:51 +0000

Google has a lot of new development and it pretty much obvious for the purpose of improving the search experienced of every users. On my own perception Google as of today is much perfect their algorithm is very much accurate. I guess they would only need additional enhancement on their system in term of users usability.

By: Rob McCance

Rob McCance — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:30:40 +0000

Web Page Test is very intereting. I always learn something when I stop by here. Thank you.

By: Basant Singh

Basant Singh — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:07:55 +0000

Thanks Matt. Wished to know more about Caffeine. Otherwise, a good round-up of year 2009. I am already using Google wave: it’s good, it’s different!

By: Jeff Langfels

Jeff Langfels — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:30:05 +0000

I got my wave invite a few weeks ago and have been messing around with it when I have time. So far I have to say it looks very intriguing . Although I don’t think it will be fully understood for quite awhile. Like the haircut… down and give me 20!

By: canvas pictures

canvas pictures — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:00:42 +0000

The ‘State of the Index’ presentation gives conclusive proof that google are a force for the good and will drive innovation for the forseeable future.

By: Matthew Anderson

Matthew Anderson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:35:51 +0000

Errr, ooopsies ;=) That previous comment was for /google-chrome-os