Google and Its Latest Update: Jagger
Webmaster Corner
As most of you already know, Google is currently in the process
of updating all its indexes and servers. The update was called
Jagger! Jagger was done in three separate phases: Jagger 1,
Jagger 2 and Jagger 3.
Jagger 1 and Jagger 2 have already finished. Jagger 1 started on
around 10/16/2005 and completed on around 11/07/2005. Jagger 2
started on around 10/27/2005 and completed around 11/6/2005.
Meaning that on average each update takes 15-20 days.
Now Jagger 3 is in the process. Jagger 3 already started around
11/04/2005 and is still working! Taken that the average was
15-20 days, this update will last until 19-24 this month
(November 2005).
How does the update work?
Google has more than one datacenter. Updates start at one
datacenter where changes will be mostly visible and then start
propagating to other datacenters. As an example, the Jagger3
started on the datacenter 66.102.9.104 and it started migrating
over time to other datacenters.
Therefore, during an update, Google datacenters get out of sync
and might report different results for the same keywords until
the update is complete and all datacenters are synchronized.
Some tips It looks like the main purpose of the update
was to remove spam sites. These are sites employing 'black'
methods to try to rank high in search engines. The following are
some examples of these methods:
- Writing hidden text using CSS!
- Writing hidden text which has the same color as the background
color of the page!
- Generating spammy doorway domains that have irrelevant words
just to attract traffic
- Spamming blogs and guestbooks with your links
Some words on Google PageRank
Google PageRank or PR is numeric value assigned by Google to
pages that represents how important a page is. The more
important and known your pages are, the better PR they will get.
PR is a scale from 0 to 10 where 0 is an unknown page for Google
and 10 is the highest PR that can be assigned.
The latest PR update was done shortly before or during the
latest Jagger1.
Tools of the trade: Here are some tools that can be used
to see your progress: - Webmaster Corner Forum: http://www.webmater-corner
.com/
Forum dealing with all aspects of site optimization and
marketing
- Google position checker: http://www.webmaster-corner.com/services/google-position
-check.php
Use this tool to find out your rankings on different
datacenters of Google
- Google Page rank: http
://www.webmaster-corner.com/services/pagerank.php
Use this tool to discover your Google Page Rank (PR).
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