Google’s BigDaddy update has caused a furore among webmasters. You can hear shrieks of dismay and outrage as Web pages vanish out of Google’s index into digital oblivion like tiles ripped from a roof in a cyclone.
In his latest (excellent) newsletter Dan Thies explains what BigDaddy is, and what it’s not:
So what is Bigdaddy? The answer, straight from Matt Cutts’ blog – Bigdaddy is “a software upgrade of our crawling and parts of our indexing.” What this means is that Google’s crawl/index team has made some changes in how they crawl the web. Mostly, the changes that affect us involve Google’s new methods of deciding which pages they will crawl and index.
If you’ve been engaging in trading and/ or buying links, you should check whether your sites have been affected, and if any pages have been dropped from the index.
As Dan suggests, Google seems to be moving towards a “trust”-based index.
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