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State of the Index 2009

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 2:50 PM

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At PubCon in Las Vegas in November 2009, I gave a "State of the Index" talk which covers what Google has done for users, web developers, and webmasters in the last year. I recently recreated it on video for those of you who didn't make it to the conference. You can watch it below:


And here are the slides if you'd like to follow along:


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15 comments:

Mike Child said...

What is the current state of the caffeine rollout?
I've noticed lots of fluctuations in rankings lately, and seen lots of blog posts from others who are seeing similar things and speculating that it is due to the caffeine launch, but haven't seen anything official from Google about this yet.

MMATeacher said...

I am loving these videos you been putting up Matt. I always wanted good information in videos rather than all text. Hope you guys will continue providing videos like such during 2010.

Dobiatowski said...

I appreciate your work. Sometimes its hard to stay up-to-date with all this stuff.

Chaitanya Patel said...

What about 2010? Does Google OS would be the biggest achievement?

Wagner said...

Thank you Matt, It's very good that we are collaborating to a better web.

jjutsa said...

Great video, keep them coming!

Rafael Martinez-Minuesa said...

Very informative video, thank you.

Just a glitch. I Joined the Google Social Search Experiment, but when I tried to test it I get:
"The experiment you're trying to access is no longer available"

???

NAVGUTI said...

Thanks a lot for putting C.C. (Closed Captions)... all Google and Matt Cutts videos should have it...

Dhiraj chaurasia said...

Specially I love the slide it is rally great.

Wacky Packages said...

The new version of Firefox 3.6 will not allow you to "install page speed."

andy said...

Great video and very helpful to have a review of the year like that, I didn't realise this was something you offered - nice one!

Cliff said...

Thanks for Info. I can't wait for Examiner.com politics section to go back live in the News. The News is boring and the stories are not developing like they were in real time when we first got a glimpse of the new caffeine architecture.

Alysson said...

A spam-o-rific link-filled comment doesn't get moderated and deleted - seriously? Spamming the GWC blog. That's just...well, it's just Googlerific.

Y'all can't stop spam on your own Blogger blog, but you're the self-appointed spam fighting masters of the universe. The irony of that is simply hysterical.

Rafael Martinez-Minuesa said...

What SPAM are you talking about Alysson?

I don't see any. Or maybe I can't read between the lines ...

But even if there was, please explain how could you moderate a comment from a clean address before it is published?
Or would you prefer them to have all comments (including yours) moderated?

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