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Tell HN: Big Google Update (maybe going after content farms)
It's still early but it looks like there's a big update happening to Google results. First signs of it were early this morning and it's now rolling out to the various servers around afternoon evening East Coast time. Right now it looks like it's localized to google.com so it remains to be seen what the long term effect of these changes are going to be when things settle out and if the changes will roll out to the international servers as well.
In terms of profile, it looks like "big" sites with many pages that get long tail search traffic are seeing a drop in SERPs/traffic. No clear profile is coming up on what they're being replaced with.
- WillyF 16y agoCare to give any examples?
- OmarIsmail 16y agoIt's difficult to give specific query/site examples because people aren't forthcoming with them. However, it's not going to be long before you start hearing about it in a broader sense (my guess is tomorrow, weekend at the latest). Due to the nature of the way it's rolling out (google.com only, starting about midday) people probably haven't noticed it yet. They'll notice it tonight, or tomorrow when they check today's logs. And then you'll start hearing a lot of chatter Saturday when people feel the brunt of the first full day of this thing. From initial assessments this looks to be a bigger change than pretty much everything I've seen in the past few years. Including MayDay, Caffiene, Florida, etc.
- sagacity 16y ago> No clear profile is coming up on what they're being replaced with. Do they necessarily have to be replaced with something? What I mean is, could it not be that these 'big' site are give - say a 300+ penalty and that's just about it.