Here is a quote from Google's Official Blog about Caffeine:

Today, we're announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered. Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.

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Im just shocked at this:

"At the moment, the index takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one (distributed) database"

With thousands more used up every day.

Beats my database size by a few meg...

Also messes with these so called SEO experts

Well all i can say google is trying to make seo work more difficult.

its just indexing algorithm

Originally Posted by elmerkit

Well all i can say google is trying to make seo work more difficult.

Can't say yet if it will be an advantage or disadvantage for us. Let's try and see what the new Google can do.

When was this? Anyway..

I really doubt if some huge ranking changes would be observed because Google has been regularly editing its ranking algorithm in the course of time and Caffeine too is only one of them. The speed of websites and loading times seem to be important now and the older standards such as contents plus quality links are still very powerful. One thing is important and that is Yahoo and Bing are watching Google gaining traffic shares of them just day by day and they do nothing.

I'm actually liking the new Google set up now. Now that they have arranged the indexed websites by category (videos, websites, images, etc), it makes it easier to target a specific category, and specific niche. I dunno, this is pretty good news to me.

Google Caffeine is new update coming to Google search engine, but not like other updates, it is a restart of search engine. Before introduce new modifications in existing system, Google has chosen to totally retool search engine with aim of getting greater speed, better indexing a relevant search results.

^ err... why the "hidden" link back to Google in your Sig?

Originally Posted by rolda hayes

^ err... why the "hidden" link back to Google in your Sig?

The idiot spammers think it's a new "bait and switch" trick.

I dont really understand all the fuss with Google Caffine, I havent seen any changes in traffic on my site, yet on some websites ive seen webmasters panicking about the outcome of Google caffine.

Woc

I remember one video of Matt Cutts few months ago about the preview and features of Caffeine and yet they are working on to make the results almost the same...

The advantage is G Caffeine gives out twice as millions of search results than the original Google search result. The disadvantage is that i don't need millions of search result one clear and full of information is enough.

As for what I have observed, Google is giving more and more relevant search results than before.

And even its a flop show from Google again after Google Buzz!

I wonder how this would affect SEO techniques.

It actually happened on June 8 2010.New update means-much faster and real time results.

"Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index"

Right, the only strange thing is that on my 9 years old site, our original news are not getting to "index" already for 3 weeks.
The same **** with other sites of my colleagues.

'Bravo', google.

I think Google will not leave its current speed for indexing most websites. It only tries to index some websites which it thinks they are important faster (i.e twitter and ... )
Still many old websites getting indexed slowly but some new websites are being indexed fast.