Tim Mayer posted a note that Yahoo would be doing an index update on Nov 1. He mentioned it would be mild and quick.
It was. Checked a few terms, and the updates seemed reasonable, and more relevant. Overall, it looks good! I read some people complaining about old / dead sites back in. I didn’t see any of those in the queries I checked, but I believe it probably happened. There always seems to need to be sime final quality control updates to every update.
On the Google front “Jagger” just keeps on going. Kind of like Mick :-) First it was Jagger, then Jagger2, The Jagger 3 was to be rolled out, but according to Matt Cutts, Jagger 3 hasn’t started rolling out yet. I noticed a big change in rankings Tuesday night, and things seem to become quite a bit less relevant. None of our clients seemed unduly affected, but I found overall search results to be noticeably lower in quality. It seemed like spam had creeped back in. So when I read Matt’s blog, and saw that Jagger3 was still to come, I was relieved: Wait for the end before judging overall. (kind of like the Yahoo! quality control comment)
Cynically, I could have said that was Jagger3, and they’re quickly backtracking. But I doubt that. Although, the massive update and rollback in late November 2003 still makes everyone cringe.
Anyhow, I look forward to seeing what happens over the weekend. Jagger, and Jagger 2 seemed to be going really well for overall relevance. I would have been pleased had it ended last Sunday / Monday. I hope that what’s happened in the last 48 hours is just a blip which will be quickly corrected.
I’ve been on the road a lot lately, and have failed to keep up posting. Been working on a few things, and had my head way down. I should get through it all by Dec.1, but in the meantime, postings may not be anywhere near as frequent as I would like.
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