October 1st, 2004               (continued)

1. Google is broken
2. Google will soon eliminate PR altogether
3. Google still looks at PR, but does not make it public anymore
4. Variations on all the above assumptions

Other developments happening lately
Additionally, many webmasters, SEO’s and site owners have noticed in their server log files or in their Web analytics software, the appearance of a second and new ‘GoogleBot’. GoogleBot is Google’s search crawler (or spider) that continually revisits websites and web pages in an effort to index the freshest content possible.

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On or about September 24, there used to be only one GoogleBot. Now, there are two of them, operating from two different IP addresses belonging to Google. This leaves many of us to believe that the search engine company is in the process of undergoing a major re-indexing of its master database.

Additionally, many sites that used to have 10,000 or more pages indexed in Google have dropped considerably, in some cases 20 to 30%. Is Google ‘cleaning up’ its index? I think so... There are still some sites with duplicate pages or duplicate content and Google is in the process of cleaning up its database.

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