Google: Update in progress

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Google engineer Matt Cutts has announced a new Google update is in progress.

Although he reports that PageRank is only publically updated quarterly, the actual value is updated more or less daily on Google’s servers.

Matt Cutts also tried to reassure webmasters that having pages in the “supplemental index” is simply an issue of PageRank, with higher PageRank pages remaining in Google’s small main index, while lower PageRank pages are delegated to Google’s much larger supplemental index.

He was at pains to point out that Google is becoming better at recovering pages from the supplemental index, where relevant, for a larger set of search queries, and that the supplemental index is becoming more frequently refreshed.

The Google engineer also made a point that a recent bug with .com domains hosted in the UK not showing properly on Google.com should be fixed, with results propagating over the coming few days.

Overall, Matt Cutts has made superb accomplishments with a very difficult position - the public face of Google for webmasters. While there will always be complaints and grumbles where site’s and business owners lose traffic from changes, it’s still good to see Google more open to communicating on such issues.