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Google’s Caffeine: a jolt to search rankings?
August 11th, 2009 | 
Author: One of the largest behind-the-scenes updates to Google’s search technology in three years is underway, as the company reworks its computing muscle.
Last night Google quietly began soliciting feedback for “Caffeine,” a new system for Web searches that is being tested completely separate from the live search results currently found through Google.com. Google makes almost constant changes to its search algorithms and infrastructure, but it hasn’t made an update of this magnitude since 2006, said Matt Cutts, a principal engineer at Google and considered one of the driving forces behind its approach to search.
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Google invites feedback on super-secret search upgrades
Google is upgrading its search infrastructure and it’s being really shady about it.
In a post on its Webmaster Central blog, however, Google engineers Sitaram Iyer and Matt Cutts insist that ordinary users won’t even see the difference.
“For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search,” the post reads, making it all sound vaguely like some kind of elf workshop. “It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions.” The user interface is unchanged.
Developers are encouraged to try out the new technology on a “sandbox” page and then offer feedback by including the word “caffeine” in Google’s feedback text field, secret-password-style.
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