This Google group goes through cycles of buggyness. :(
Currently, the profile feature is at least 2 days behind in its updates. Why? People have been complaining about lost posts. Why?
People have been complaining about sitemaps in webmasters tools. Why? Webmasters tools says that my home page was last crawled in January 2007, which is obviously wrong. It also reports "Sitemap not allowed." Naturally, it is providing absolutely no options to correct this so called problem. Since the last crawled date bug flagged pole problem went up, I know right off that webmasters tools offers nothing worthwhile to waste my time looking at.
With Google, it is ALWAYS one bug after another, month after month, after month. These bugs are cyclical in nature.
So is a web site's ranking in the SERPs affected by a buggy Google? Absolutely! Only a fool would think otherwise.
Were your assumption to be true, it would have to be based on all of Google's code being written by the same group. Correct?
Either that or Google would have to have a company wide policy of providing buggy code on purpose but how likely is that?
Are all the various products and services provided by Google buggy?
Other than webmaster help using both webmaster tools and Google Groups, both of which don't seem to be as reliable as one might hope, the source of each is likely as different as the source of those two and gMail and/or Analytics just as those four are likely separate from those who implement Google's search engine functionality.
You are having to make a lot of assumptions and draw connections where there likely aren't any to come to your conclusion.
> This Google group goes through cycles of buggyness. :(
> Currently, the profile feature is at least 2 days behind in its > updates. Why? People have been complaining about lost posts. Why?
> People have been complaining about sitemaps in webmasters tools. Why? > Webmasters tools says that my home page was last crawled in January > 2007, which is obviously wrong. It also reports "Sitemap not > allowed." Naturally, it is providing absolutely no options to correct > this so called problem. Since the last crawled date bug flagged pole > problem went up, I know right off that webmasters tools offers nothing > worthwhile to waste my time looking at.
> With Google, it is ALWAYS one bug after another, month after month, > after month. These bugs are cyclical in nature.
> So is a web site's ranking in the SERPs affected by a buggy Google? > Absolutely! Only a fool would think otherwise.
> > This Google group goes through cycles of buggyness. :(
> > Currently, the profile feature is at least 2 days behind in its > > updates. Why? People have been complaining about lost posts. Why?
> > People have been complaining about sitemaps in webmasters tools. Why? > > Webmasters tools says that my home page was last crawled in January > > 2007, which is obviously wrong. It also reports "Sitemap not > > allowed." Naturally, it is providing absolutely no options to correct > > this so called problem. Since the last crawled date bug flagged pole > > problem went up, I know right off that webmasters tools offers nothing > > worthwhile to waste my time looking at.
> > With Google, it is ALWAYS one bug after another, month after month, > > after month. These bugs are cyclical in nature.
> > So is a web site's ranking in the SERPs affected by a buggy Google? > > Absolutely! Only a fool would think otherwise.
> Were your assumption to be true, it would have to be based on all of > Google's code being written by the same group. Correct?
> Either that or Google would have to have a company wide policy of > providing buggy code on purpose but how likely is that?
> Are all the various products and services provided by Google buggy?
> Other than webmaster help using both webmaster tools and Google > Groups, both of which don't seem to be as reliable as one might hope, > the source of each is likely as different as the source of those two > and gMail and/or Analytics just as those four are likely separate from > those who implement Google's search engine functionality.
> You are having to make a lot of assumptions and draw connections where > there likely aren't any to come to your conclusion.
I have, also, been following the SERPs for my name. Its behavior could only be described as buggy as hell. Just ask the hate blogger why he is no longer #1. Ha, ... Hah, Ha!
As far as this group and Webmaster Tools goes, the bugs come and go almost on clock work. It is laughable.
> I have, also, been following the SERPs for my name. Its behavior > could only be described as buggy as hell. Just ask the hate blogger > why he is no longer #1. Ha, ... Hah, Ha! >From where I am searching from, "John H. Gohde: his hatred and racism
cataloged" is still number 1 and a comments section for it indented at number 2.
But then again, rankings can seem to fluctuate widely at times in some cases yet be rock steady in others.
Actually from a searcher point of view, I sort of like having the fluctuations, at least in the areas/topics I usually search as I can see a different variety some times.
On the other hand, when it comes to my sites, I HATE fluctuations, unless of course it is one of my sites fluctuating its way to the top. :-()
> As far as this group and Webmaster Tools goes, the bugs come and go > almost on clock work. It is laughable.
It is interesting that it does seem the same problems arise and then just as promptly disappear over and over again.
Many of the problems, with Google Groups, or at least this Google Group appear to be user account related, e.g. stars for remembered threads disappearing, new post counts etc. At the same time though, posts taking a significant period of time to show up seems like it could be more server load related but who knows.
When it works, it works, when it doesn't it's a hint to go do something else. :-()
> So is a web site's ranking in the SERPs affected by a buggy Google? > Absolutely! Only a fool would think otherwise.
Call it fluctuations if you want. But, I have seen more than one person complain about their income streams being adversely affected by these flucuations.
I have seen wild fluctuations in ranking in the SERPs when absolutely nothing has changed on the web sites.
> > So is a web site's ranking in the SERPs affected by a buggy Google? > > Absolutely! Only a fool would think otherwise.
> Call it fluctuations if you want. But, I have seen more than one > person complain about their income streams being adversely affected by > these flucuations.
> I have seen wild fluctuations in ranking in the SERPs when absolutely > nothing has changed on the web sites.
> The biggest failing with Google Groups is there is no "Ban the Nut" > button to be found anywhere.
> On Jul 29, 8:39 am, John H. Gohde wrote:
> > > So is a web site's ranking in the SERPs affected by a buggy Google? > > > Absolutely! Only a fool would think otherwise.
> > Call it fluctuations if you want. But, I have seen more than one > > person complain about their income streams being adversely affected by > > these flucuations.
> > I have seen wild fluctuations in ranking in the SERPs when absolutely > > nothing has changed on the web sites.
> > You know if you hate Google so much you can just ban little ol' > > googlebot in your robots.txt.
> I am a lover, NOT a hatter.
> Just thought that you might want to know. :)
> > The biggest failing with Google Groups is there is no "Ban the Nut" > > button to be found anywhere.
> > On Jul 29, 8:39 am, John H. Gohde wrote:
> > > > So is a web site's ranking in the SERPs affected by a buggy Google? > > > > Absolutely! Only a fool would think otherwise.
> > > Call it fluctuations if you want. But, I have seen more than one > > > person complain about their income streams being adversely affected by > > > these flucuations.
> > > I have seen wild fluctuations in ranking in the SERPs when absolutely > > > nothing has changed on the web sites.
> > > I prefer to call Google buggy.- Hide quoted text -
