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Bigdaddy goes Live.

Google are claiming that Bigdaddy has now been rolled out to most datacentres. As Bigdaddy stabilizes it is expected that PageRank, for individual URLs, is likely to settle down as well. It has also been speculated that there may well be a PageRank update in the next couple of weeks.

Bigdaddy Looms Closer.

For some months now Google has been working on a software upgrade to it's infrastructure, named Bigdaddy. The update will provide the framework for a series of improvements to the core of search quality. It is claimed that it will improve it's handling of redirects and canonical (duplicate) pages. Google have announced that they are down to the last couple of datacentres before the switchover to the Bigdaddy system, this could be as soon as the next couple of weeks.

BigDaddy Causing Problems.

Is Big Daddy becoming more infamous than the Florida or Jagger updates? Webmasters are reporting that their sites are not being crawled for weeks, SERPS returning old pages and once successful phrases failing to return results. Some sites have lost almost all of their indexed pages with cache dates going back to January 2004.

We have also seen new sites that have a cache one day, only to have no cache at all a couple of days later. It also appears to be dependent on from where you are looking, different ISP's and even computers are seeing different things.

These fluctuations may be as a result of Big Daddy but Eric Schmidt of Google hinted that there maybe other factors "machines are full.... we have a huge machine crisis". He estimates that robot generated spam is taking up between 1/5 and 1/3 of Googles Index, which probably explains why Google is on such a mission to detect webspam.

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