It's being reported that Google's latest reindex has dropped many top sites in the rankings. Recent Google Update Giving Critics Ammunition (Nov 26). Cory Kleinschmidt at Traffick.com warns that such radical change is bound to annoy search engine marketers and webmasters.
Seth Finklestein thinks this might be a Google Bayesian Spam Filtering Problem (Nov 26). Google could be fighting spam with a Bayesian spam filter -- "a method for probabilistically estimating the likelihood that material is spam. " -- and experiencing unintended results.
Posted by Gwen at November 27, 2003 05:46 PM