Comments on: Video: Datacenter comments

By: Ars

Ars — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:45:24 +0000

Very useful SEO stuff in just one video. Matt you have great SEO cap. I would like one too.

By: Maximum Persuasion

Maximum Persuasion — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:49:04 +0000

As do I! One of the better posts I’ve been digging up over the past days.

I used to research linking strategies at seobook.net . Looks I’ll be hanging here and getting drunk over the Cutts site more frequently

By: Shahid

Shahid — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:12:46 +0000

Hi Matt,

I just wanted to pass my compliments for the useful array of SEO videos you have uploaded to Google Video. The Data Center Video was well worth the watch….I totally agree the focus should be on specific and unique content. also never thought of testing sites with a text reader in terms of usability. I guess my list of priorities have been re-structured in-line with your video comments….

Thanks again

Shahid.SEO

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:13:21 +0000

Google did a great job with their cameo in the movie Crank (badass over-the-top action movie where all sorts of stuff blows up and people die, if you’re into that sort of thing). I saw it last night. You guys really lost yourselves in the moment.

By: K Bradman

K Bradman — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:13:43 +0000

I think know google gives lot of preference to the referential links. Links pointing to your webpage with some Keyword Oriented anchor text, this is similar to google bomb or google wash.

By: mick

mick — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:05:15 +0000

Hey matt

I know this post is old but the video is offline – something along the lines of ‘this video is no longer available’.

i was hoping to watch it again.

Mick

By: kandk

kandk — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:44:51 +0000

Just saw this video but I liked video on crawl dates.
Nice use of “multi-media”.

On a side question: Now that google has purchased YouTube are ther any plans to integrate google video and youtube?

By: Lori Eldridge

Lori Eldridge — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:24:41 +0000

Hi Matt,

I have exausted all means of help so hoping you can look into this. I manage a website that I redesigned last April. It had duplicate description tags and product descriptions which I fixed. It has a hyphen in the domain and was one of those that lost most of it’s pages in May but slowly regained them all. It was a year old then and never had ranked for it’s main keywords and still isn’t except for the words in it’s domain. This site is squeeky clean but it appears to be penalized for some reason that we can’t fathom. The host said this was a new IP address when we changed hosts in early July so we don’t believe it’s a poisoned domain. I sent in a reinclusion request 2 months ago and still no word from Google so I’m wondering if you can check on it. Not sure I should post the url so if you can email me I’ll send you the info.

Take care
Lori

By: Clement

Clement — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:53:05 +0000

Matt,
to estimate how many total pages indexed by Google, I simply search keyword w/ some most common keyword like letter ‘a’, assuming almost 99% of pages contains such keyword ‘a’.
so I got about 20Billion total pages from Google, 11B from Yahoo, and 2.5B from MSN.
Interesting enough, I tried this over last couple months, at different dates so to sample the changes of total pages got indexed. And it did show quite some difference, although no question that Google has been the No.1 on the total number of indexed pages, way ahead of the No2&3.
However, the actual value change from 18B to 25B for Google over last couple months.
So here are the questions:
1) why is 25B pages the limit? due to storage or computation(crawling/indexing) time constraint? Internet’s total pages is growing rapidly, why I don’t see the similar proportional growth in the total number of indexed pages?
2)thanks for the Cached time stamp showing when page was the crawled,
how long does it take for the index to be updated after the completion of a crawling cycle (I presume indexing run simutaneously(or should I said right behind) crawling), how would any searchEngine keep up w/ the growing web pages ? is the indexing too slow to set the above 25B limit? or the crawler?
3)but I do see the news or blog got indexed in minutes or within 1 day,
why not the rest of the web pages, get incrementally crawled & indexed within 1 day or shorter? what’s the constraint preventing this?
I cann’t wait to see Google provide search over the real-time web! How long are we gotna wait for this to happen?

many thanks,
Clement

By: gregorio

gregorio — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:08:27 +0000

Hi Matt,

I just noticed you deleted my comment…
Was it because I was critical to the way Google managed the 27th June issue?
Or was it because I compared Google to the IBM of the 70′s?

Gregorio