http://battellemedia.com/archives/002661.php
Finally a response from an Engineer – (Matt has resisted the temptation to take a Blog Vacation Break...)
So this will have to do – until He starts Blogging again.
NOW THAT'S WILLPOWER!!!!!!!!! |
Not true.
Adam has responded to the Digg post 4 days ago:
http://digg.com/technology/How_One_Spammer_Got_BILLIONS_of_Pages_into_Google_in_3_Weeks
(search for AdamLasnik) |
Where's the response from an engineer in that post Search-Engines-Web? |
I've long been a lurker / occasional commenter for quite some time here, and I figured I might as well offer a few clarifications on the "5 billion" issue :-).
I work with Matt Cutts and other engineers in the Search Quality Team at Google. And yes, we noticed that lots of subdomains got indexed last week – and sometimes listed in search results – that shouldn't have been. Compounding the issue, our result count estimates in these contexts was MANY orders of magnitude off. For example, the one site that supposedly had 5.5 billion pages in the index actually had under 1/100,000th of that.
So how did this happen? We pushed some corrupted data with our index. Once we diagnosed the problem, we started rolling the data back and pushed something better... and we've been putting in place checks so that this kind of thing doesn't happen again.
Posted by: Adam Lasnik June 20, 2006 10:44 PM
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by AdamLasnik on 6/17/06
[comment buried, show commenthide comment] + 2 diggs Hey there,
I'm on the Search Quality Team at Google. We're aware of the situation that's been discussed here.
In particular, I wanted to note a couple of things:
1) Our engineers recently noticed that our site: queries (number of results listed for a search) were showing bizarre results. This has turned out to be tied to a bad data push, and we're fixing this right now.
2) I am *NOT* on the AdSense team, but I'd hope common sense would suggest to fellow Digg'ers that a click on an AdSense ad does not necessarily result in a charge to an advertiser and a credit to a publisher. |
Just for the record to be TECHNICALLY accurate AL is a Search Evangelist
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/better-conversations/
http://www.bladam.com/main/entry/now-a-googler/
I am Google's first "Search Evangelist," working to improve communications between Webmasters and Google. As you can imagine, this position is quite a challenge, an adventure, and an honor. |
Thanks, I added it to the frontpage article! |
