Comments on: Is Googlebot Getting Lazy

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:54:35 +0000

Hi Matt your awesome google is awesome you are all awesome !!! later

By: Randy Lorenzano

Randy Lorenzano — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:51:23 +0000

I was kinda thinking that my sites were a little being left off by google having noticed these.. but seems googlebots trying to have a vacation or is now being picky hehe

By: James

James — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:14:05 +0000

just maybe google is busy handling the copyright issue for those videos in youtube??! : P

By: mark

mark — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:01:02 +0000

Yes, it has kinda slowed down lately.

By: Parys

Parys — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:21:50 +0000

Taking new (yes, BH) content fully indexed is hard this times. It takes me something around 30 days now.

By: TallTroll

TallTroll — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:02:28 +0000

LOL, Matt! Yer, I remember when the cycle used to be

1) create loads of content and upload it
2) Watch your logfile like a hawk for Gbot hitting the new pages (all kinds of PR pump tricks went on to entice the little fella down the “right” links)
3) Wait for the Google Dance (yes, the original meaning)
4) Watch your new pages grab top 5 spots overnight when a new index rolled out
5) Profit!

New content insertion was a major step forward, and was greeted with amazement at the time. I guess y’all are going to have to keep improving that cycle time – you’ve got the old skool “instant indexing” to replicate yet

By: Michael Gray

Michael Gray — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:55:23 +0000

SEO’s aren’t the only one’s more caffeinated I seem to remember seeing you drinking a red bull during a morning session. I believe it was Boston Pubcon 2006 when you were on the panel with Robert Scoble and Jeremy Zawodny. I’m pretty sure it was a sugar free red bull lot # ….

By: Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:35:24 +0000

LOL @ Matt!

I would hope they would give CNN the 4-5 day index and Fox News the 1-3 during this important politican season.

Fair and balanced indexing.

By: Shimon Sandler - SEO Consultant

Shimon Sandler - SEO Consultant — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:02:40 +0000

Now that you mention it, I’m noticing the same thing. From what I can see in my web analytics, Yahoo is a much hungrier spider…daily visits to my blog. But, the cache is the same for both Google & Yahoo.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:54:09 +0000

P.S. You know, back in early 2003, the freshest search engines would be 30-45 days behind. I think SEOs these days are more caffeinated.