Glitches In Google!! Or Google Ready To Strike Again With Its Indexing Algorithm?

Have you checked the Google indexing for your website pages lately? If not, go on have a look, you are up for a surprise.

What is indexing?

While crawling pages on the internet, Google gathers them, and creates an index for each of them. When we try searching something, the search terms are matched with the indexes and appropriate results appear. 

What has happened? 

Something new has happened (not yet sure good or bad). Earlier today (May 22, 2013), when we made a normal search to check the indexes for our websites, we noticed something. The search results showed just three pages and thirty results. Many eyebrows were raised, some in doubt others in terror, fearing some new Google update that might be on its way, real time soon. To confirm our doubts we used our Google indexing tools to search results for some very popular names that included:

• Amazon (site:http://www.amazon.com/)
   
• eBay (site:http://www.ebay.com/)
  
  
• Google (site:http://www.google.com/)
  
  
• Facebook (site:http://www.facebook.com)

The outcome was same, three pages and thirty results with a note at the end of the last page saying,

“In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 29 already displayed.

If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.” 

 

When you accept to repeat the search with the omitted results included, you will be able to see all the results that were missing. Fishy, isn’t it? As no formal announcements from the administrative end of Google have been made, we cannot tell yet, if this something is to be rejoiced by the world of SEO or should they be terrified. This still could be a signal to the world of SEO announcing some new updates that Google is deciding on coming up with, in its indexing algorithm, which might be on its way and the results could be seen anytime soon.