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It would appear that all the major search engines have been reported to be updating their indexes in some way.

Google is updating back links at some of the Google data centers.  We have watched one particular term bounce from #16 to #11 on page two during this time, looks like it will end up at #11 just one away from the front page.  Which goes to show when you practice white hat seo you tend to come out ahead in an update and it also demonstraits that the back link update is effecting rankings.
Yahoo has been recently reported to have updated its algorithm or index, although there is no official word from Yahoo on this as of yet.  The same term we have seen move around at Google has been moving around on Yahoo Search and has ended up moving from page 3 and number 26 for us up to page 2 and number 13.  While we are happy about that move and still gunning for page one it was wierd to see our rank go back and forth almost every hour for a two day period.
And MSN Search has confirmed that an update has occurred to their index recently and this was the one update that term had a negative response on.  We moved from position number one down to position number three on MSN Search / Microsoft Search / Live.com or what ever they are calling themselves this week.

So in this update it would appear that MSN, Google and Yahoo have moved closer to a similar result over all yet the top ten for this term are vastly different on all three engines.
According to Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Watch Blog Google’s update may not be represented in the index but as noted above we have indeed seen term bounce around of the various data centers during this update.
Yahoo and MSN’s updates have reports that the search results have indeed changed and everyone in the blogosphere seems to concur.  Overall and across the board we are pretty happy so far,  keep an eye on your results though because none of these updates appear to be complete yet,

~ Jack Spirko

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