Tuesday, November 10, 2009

GOOGLE UPDATES: Caffeine search is ready to go

http://www.google-yahoo-msn-update.blogspot.com/
Google's Caffeine initiative to improve search results is leaving the sandbox.

First revealed as a "secret project" in the early hours of August, Caffeine is projected to speed up search results as well as improve their accuracy. Google's Webmaster Central blog at the point described Caffeine as "the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness with other dimensions."

A Caffeine Web page had been set up as a developer preview test site asking public to try out the new feature and offer their feedback. However as spotted by Mashable.com, the developer information has been taken down and it has been replaced with a note from Google, pegging Caffeine a hit and briefly describing the next phase.

Based on the success we have seen, we believe Caffeine is prepared for a larger audience. Quickly we will activate Caffeine more widely, beginning with one data center. This sandbox is no longer needed and has been retired, but we be thankful for the testing and positive input that webmasters as well has publishers have given.

Caffeine won't change the look or else feel of Google's popular search engine but will work under the hood to perk up its performance, reportedly delivering faster, better, and more flexible results. However Google continually tweaks its search engine, Caffeine represents the first most important enhancement to its search indexing since 2006.

No word or response yet from Google on when Caffeine may actually go live.

In a late August interview with WebProNews, Google engineer Matt Cutts added that the feedback on Caffeine is been very positive.

And in a forecast of Google's latest move, Cutts also added he wouldn't be satisfied if Caffeine were slowly opened up one data center at a time. Then once Google is pleased with the new search indexing, Caffeine must spill out into more and more data centers.

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