{"id":1306,"date":"2009-12-21T05:09:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T09:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2009-12-18T19:17:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T23:17:41","slug":"google-says-50-of-searches-using-caffeine-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2009\/12\/21\/google-says-50-of-searches-using-caffeine-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Says 50% of Searches Using Caffeine Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced that one of the data centers is already running the new Caffeine algorithm. This in not new news, but Google stated that 50% of searches are now\u00a0coming out of the new\u00a0Caffeine algorithm.<\/p>\n<p>We know that all of Google will move to the Caffeine algorithm after the holidays, but with 50% of the searches running on Caffeine now\u00a0is\u00a0hot news.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that the week between Christmas and New Years Google will roll out the full Caffeine update. Partly because there are typically low search numbers in that week and\u00a0that may give Google a chance to tweak some things and kind of do a test run live before traffic returns after the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand everyone at Google may be off between Christmas and New Years and so the update will roll out the first week of January. Your guess is as good as mine which approach Google will take.<\/p>\n<p>I am taking a poll, just leave your comments on when you think the rollout will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced that one of the data centers is already running the new Caffeine algorithm. This in not new news, but Google stated that 50% of searches are now\u00a0coming out of the new\u00a0Caffeine algorithm. We know that all of Google will move to the Caffeine algorithm after the holidays, but with 50% of the searches running on Caffeine now\u00a0is\u00a0hot news. I suspect that the week between Christmas and New Years Google will roll out the full Caffeine update. Partly because there are typically low search numbers in that week and\u00a0that may give Google a chance to tweak some things and kind of do a test run live before traffic returns after the New Year. On the other hand everyone at Google may be off between Christmas and New Years and so the update will roll out the first week of January. Your guess is as good as mine which approach Google will take. I am taking a poll, just leave your comments on when you think the rollout will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-adwords"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google Says 50% of Searches Using Caffeine Now! | The Web Authority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2009\/12\/21\/google-says-50-of-searches-using-caffeine-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google Says 50% of Searches Using Caffeine Now! | The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Google has announced that one of the data centers is already running the new Caffeine algorithm. 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