Is Caffeine Behind Broken UK SERPs?
08-11-09
In a post on the Webmaster Central Blog, Google have announced the immediate availability of a test sandbox for what they are calling “Caffeine”. Described as “the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions”, Caffeine is a looking glass into the future SERPs.
The real question though is: is Caffeine the reason the UK SERPs are broken?
Google Pulling Random Dates Into SERPs
07-20-09Late last night I tweeted out the following, and I wondered if anyone knows the rules by which Google pulls this info from a page:
Seeing some really weird use of dates in google snippets lately. Anyone have insight into the parsing algo being used?
Google Adding Links Into Suggest?
07-13-09
I’m not sure if this is new or not, but Google have apparently started adding links directly into the Google Suggest drop-down box (right). You won’t see this on a Google UK search, but switch over to google.com and you should get something similar.
As you’d expect, the link is what would appear in position #1 of the query suggestion at the top of the pile but I do wonder how this affects rank tracking tools that rely on Google’s ranking data in referrer strings.
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