Series of Googleguy answers on Bourbon and the like
There is a
thread at webmasterworld which was closed to everyone except GoogleGuy so he could respond to a series of questions posed there. Its now two months old but still relevant.
As always you need to read between the lines, but I found a few nuggets there, though not the particular one I was searching for.
<added> a couple of quotes that I found interesting:
Quote:
The external backlinks/PR that we show have at least a couple factors that complicate analysis. First off, they are a snapshot in time, and the actual backlinks/PageRank used for ranking are from a different time interval. Another complicating factor is that we don't show every backlink on Google; we only show a subset of the backlinks we have internally.
Quote:
Just as a guide for people who don't eat and breathe WebmasterWorld, we typically show new backlink sample sets every 3-5 weeks or so. We have a bank of machines that computes PageRank continuously (and continually, I suppose; I wasn't an English major), but we only export new visible PageRanks every 3-4 months or so.
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