The Google Hilltop Algorithm, p.6

June 4th, 2004      (Continued)

It is my analysis that Google has apparently set a certain arbitrary threshold value to the actual number of searches, a real-life search keyword needs to have in practice before it triggers a set limit in the Hilltop algorithm.

This is then sent to a temporary buffer (similar to the memory buffers we have in our personal computers, except much larger) for later batch processing in its whole complex system.

Looking back to the ‘old days of the monthly Google dances, it would appear that Google’s Hilltop algorithm operates on the combined total of most popular search terms used once a month, hence the old “Google dance effect”, prior to November 16, 2003.

Additionally, and this is something I have noticed even before the Florida update, incremental and smaller bits of batch processing is likely being done more frequently by Google on certain search terms that increase in popularity much faster, such as a major news event, for example when the US captured Saddam Hussein in December 2003. Such important news events will have a drastic effect in both the frequency and the speed in which Googlebot will index certain news sites.

Such short-term events or news 'spikes' would rightly qualify for the short-term “buffer” and would be processed as such by Hilltop.

In contrast, more ‘standard’ and ordinary results for the longer term would be timed in with the 10,000 servers about once a month, which again, would make perfect sense. Search terms that do not qualify to trigger the Hilltop algorithm continue to show people the old Google ranking.

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