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Why is it that "our algorithms think the site is dead" so soon, yet when I search for a keyword, I still get sites that our dead or no longer contain the given
by joelhaasnoot 15y ago
Why is it that "our algorithms think the site is dead" so soon, yet when I search for a keyword, I still get sites that our dead or no longer contain the given keyword? Bad algorithms or is this "thinking dead" a time delayed thing?
- Matt_Cutts 15y agoNormally there's a lag between when a site goes dead and when we crawl the site to see that it's dead. It's also tricky because you don't want a single transient glitch to cause a site to be removed from Google, so normally our systems try to give a little wiggle room in case individual sites are just under unusual load or the site is down only temporarily.