Google cleans up the index

Johannes Beus
It feels nearly as though Google was native to the southern hemisphere and decided to do its spring cleaning: since October 26th, a large number of sites see a shrinkage of the number of indexed documents in the “first” - meaning not the supplemental – index. At the same time it makes no difference whether the measurements are done with site:example.org or (all)inurl:example.org, on average about 1/3 of all sites are gone – the picture on the right, belonging to a price-comparison, can thus be seen as a representative for many sites. Personally I do not see a connection between this and the manual depreciation of the PageRank of a few linksellers a few days ago, albeit it is fitting the date of the Internet-wide PageRank-update. I will leave the benefit of transferring this to the inclined reader.

[update 11.09] This morning there was another strong jolt downwards for many sites, the exemplary site is left with only 165k pages in the index. To me, this seems to be more and more of a technical issue ...
Johannes Beus - on Thu (11/08/2007) at 21:55 PM

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