Is Google full up?
In the April 21 issue of the New York Times, the Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is quoted as saying about Google’s servers, “Those machines are full. We have a huge machine crisis.” Whether because of this or the “Bigdaddy” update to the search infrastructure that Google made in January, a lot of Web sites have been adversely affected. Search Engine Watch reports
This week, problems have gotten worse, webmasters all over the forums are reporting server issues with pages dropping in and out of the index, pages not being crawled, old cached pages, dead (404) pages being returned by Google and outright irrelevant results.
The muckraking and entertaining (but not always accurate) site The Register reports
Webmasters have been seething at Google since it introduced its ‘Big Daddy’ update in January, the biggest revision to the way its search engine operates for years.
Alarm usually accompanies changes to Google’s algorithms, as the new rankings can cause websites to be demoted, or disappear entirely. But four months on from the introduction of “Big Daddy,” it’s clear that the problem is more serious than any previous revision – and it’s getting worse.
Unfortunately, the Google search engine has such a preeminent position that its problems can wreak havoc in innumerable ways. I love Google but this concentration of power in one search engine is a problem.
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