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Matt Cutts posted on his blog "P.S. I might put out a call for comments on that test data center sometime this week"

It is hard to say what this could meen however byt the sounds of it this data center may start coming into play late in December is my prediction....

Here is the latest post by Reseller at Webmasterworld

Good evening Folks
Your talk about spam just reminded me. It has been more than a week (or at least it feels so) since we have enjoyed together an anti-spam spot. To those of you who missed it so much, here it is :-)

Don't wait to send Jagger-related spam feedback; I'd send that now. Using the keyword "Jagger3" at http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html will get someone reading and checking it out.

Don't keep Matt "Inigo" Cutts & Co waiting :-)

This is the lamest thing I have seen.. Matt Cutts is sitting back laughing his ass off right now.. People are reporting all of the sites that come up better then them on the serps thinking they are actually doing some good.. Yes that is how it is done If you are at pos 50 report the 49 sites that come up before you and in 2-3 days bingo you are again at the top of the serp's. The SAD reallity is you have kiss asses such as reseller who actually think that it works... Open your eyes people the spam reports are not working.. Google is messed up right now either intentionally or not the bottom line is it is messed up. The Spam reports are just a cover up to keep you buisy spending your time searching and sending those reports...YOU ARE WAISTING YOUR TIME

Now I don't know if Jagger is over or not.. Honestly I hope not but either way alot of us got hit hard by this one. Our Black Friday happened the middle of October or earlier for some people. I just wanted to bring up some thoughts that may or may not be true I want to stress that they are just thoughts..

Alot of people have touched on the subject that Google does this every year around this time.. Alot of it doesn't make sense to me however alot of it does..After a month of ups and downs it seems funny that everything settles just before Black Friday. It also seems funny that it apperas that Google stocks have also skyrocketed since the beggining of this and that people are spending more money on Adwords. If you are a retail site and got hit byt this update what are you to do when you are used to a certain amount of traffic...Just give up?? I think not... You gotta do what you gotta do and that to most means spend money on Adwords.. It would make sense to scramble the results from Googles perspective since the sites that were doing good are not using Adwords all that much and the ones that shot up in the serps that were normally way back in the results are spending alot of money on Adwords. So the sites that gained so much will stay spending the money and probably more and the sites that lost will have no choice but to start doing the same...

This is not my belief of what is happening or happened totally just some thoughts.. What do you think?

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving

From pc world.com

Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Google's hosted Web analytics service Google Analytics suffered serious performance problems earlier this week, after the company announced the service would be available free of charge, but seemed to have stabilized by Wednesday.

"They clearly underestimated the number of people trying to sign up on Monday," said Alan Gahtan, an attorney based in Toronto, who spent hours on Monday trying to sign up for the service, which used to cost $199 per month.

Google Analytics, formerly known as Urchin on Demand, lets users monitor visits to their Web sites. The users can track, for example, the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns and to determine how to modify Web pages to improve sales conversions.


Sluggish Start
After Gahtan managed to register, he again faced much difficulty logging in, and, once logged in, found the service extremely slow and repeatedly got kicked off to a page saying Google Analytics was down for maintenance and to please try back later.

He couldn't look at usage data gathered by the service until Tuesday afternoon, and even then the data wasn't precisely fresh, but running more like 24 hours behind, he said.

By Wednesday, the service seemed stable and working properly, said Gahtan, who is using Google Analytics to track usage of his Web site, which he uses to market his practice, a boutique law firm specializing in IT and e-commerce matters.

Eddy Kawira, general manager of Extreme Software, had no trouble signing up for Google Analytics on Monday, but he faced major difficulties setting up the four Web sites he wanted to track. Like Gahtan, he found the service slow and kept getting redirected to the page saying Google Analytics was down for maintenance.

By Tuesday, he could get on to the service without major problems, but there was little for him to do there: Google Analytics wasn't showing him any data. He finally saw data on Wednesday morning for three of the four Web sites, said Kawira, whose employer, Extreme Software, is based near Oklahoma City and develops and sells customized software for furniture manufacturers.


Returnees Have Hassle
The problem wasn't limited to those trying to sign up for the service for the first time on Monday. Ethan Stock, founder of local events search provider Zvents, ripped into Google on Monday in his personal blog after he encountered various performance and sign-on problems when he accessed Google Analytics.

"Right now, I feel like Google doesn't care about me enough as a customer to tell me that they're changing a product I pay for. They don't care enough about me as a customer to make sure that my login doesn't change, or that they at least ask or warn me before changing my login. They don't care enough about me as a customer to make sure that the re-launch of their product doesn't dramatically impact the people who are already paying them lots of money," Stock wrote. He didn't immediately return a call seeking further comment.

"The demand for Google Analytics was much higher than we expected. The service is now completely restored and full service is available to everyone," a Google spokesperson wrote via e-mail when asked for comment on Wednesday.

That Google fumbled the launch of this service is hard to believe, given the company's profile and resources, Extreme Software's Kawira said. "They should have known they were going to have a huge amount of people sign up," he said.

Despite the subpar performance of the service so far, Kawira isn't ready to give up on it. "I'm definitely going to stick with it because I'm confident they will iron it out," he said.

In the meantime, Google has been cleaning pie from its face. "Needless to say, the criticism of Google Analytics is not without merit--they flubbed the launch in a big way," wrote Jupiter Research analyst Eric Peterson in a posting on the company's official analyst blog.

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Google has now re-branded Urchin to Google Analytics presenting users with better ways to “understand and influence visitor behavior and generate a higher ROI on marketing initiatives”. Yes folks! It’s offering a free hosted web analytics service, in hopes that advertisers, publishers and website owners will spend time understanding how people find their websites, navigate through them and convert on the goals of the site. With the free service, Google hopes it helps people spend money on their search marketing campaigns rather than on measurement. This is going to have a huge impact on both the search marketing and the web analytics industries.

Looks like things are winding down for Jagger 3, From my understanding with GG post on WMW we should be seeing the final results spreading by early next week. Anyone else finding anything different?

This whole thing has got my head spinning. Nothing makes sense with the numbers and the ups and downs.. Last night it looked like Jagger 3 was starting as Matt Cutts had said but from what I am seeing the data has all changed again and makes no sense...What are your thoughts?

JAGGER a very familiar word lately. Alot of big chnges at Google that is in one way or another effecting all of us..what are your thoughts??

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