The future of Google search?

[djbaxter]

Help test some next-generation infrastructure
Google Webmaster Central
Monday, August 10, 2009

To build a great web search engine, you need to:

1. Crawl a large chunk of the web.
2. Index the resulting pages and compute how reputable those pages are.
3. Rank and return the most relevant pages for users' queries as quickly as possible.

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. 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 new infrastructure sits "under the hood" of Google's search engine, which means that most users won't notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, so we're opening up a web developer preview to collect feedback.

Some parts of this system aren't completely finished yet, so we'd welcome feedback on any issues you see. We invite you to visit the web developer preview of Google's new infrastructure at Google and try searches there.

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See also More info on the Caffeine Update by Matt Cutts.

 

[Jeremy Morgan]

Checking a lot of my SERPS and many of them seem to be doing better.

One thing I have noticed is more links to domain roots as opposed to deeper pages. Has anyone else noticed this?