Webmasters have been seething at Google since it introduced its ‘Big Daddy’ update in January, the biggest revision to the way its search engine operates for years.
Webmasters now report sites not being crawled for weeks, with Google SERPS (search engine results pages) returning old pages, and failing to return results for phrases that used to bear fruitful results.
With creating junk web pages is so cheap and easy to do, Google is engaged in an arms race with search engine optimizers. Each innovation designed to bring clarity to the web, such as tagging, is rapidly exploited by spammers or site owners wishing to harvest some classified advertising revenue.
But the new algorithms may not be solely to blame. Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt has hinted at another reason for the recent chaos. In Google’s earnings conference call last month, Schmidt was frank about the extent of the problem.
“Those machines are full,” he said. “We have a huge machine crisis.”
Awww does da poor widdle user have to weed da page summawy. Do you want mommy to kiss it bedder?
“Eric Schmidt has hinted at another reason for the recent chaos. In Google’s earnings conference call last month, Schmidt was frank about the extent of the problem.”
These guys are so subtle…He can hint at a reason and be frank about it in the same sentence.
I have a couple of pentium machines with 1 to 2 gig drives they can have. That would be enough for at least one or two persons gmail inbox. 🙂
Reminds me of that Onion article a few months back the gist of which was, Google was intent on deleting all information on Earth that it did not archive.
Is Michael Dell listening?
Hmm … maybe THAT’S why they deleted my custom homepage …
I think Schmidt was just trying to defend spending $345 million on new machines. I really don’t think that Google’s machines are “full”. Check out http://www.ahfx.net/weblog/80 for my take on the server issue.