New (sorta) Info From Google

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I found a thread at another board that was started by Googleguy (a rep from Google) and it brought up some answers to some common questions posted over here a lot as well as debunking a few myths
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/29720.htm

A quick glance through - important to remember we are in the middle of an update so some of this is slanted

He puts to bed all of the mis-information out there about toolbar PR and backlinks - its just as we've been trying to say here all along - dont use it for analysis

He also talks about the best way to ensure that you dont get into a split site problem i.e. with the www.domain.com and domain.com and what to do (which I believe we recommended over here some time back) when you do get in this situation.

Also finally came out and got rid of the myth that Google penalizes for frames and Iframes - just not true - while also mentioning the urban myth about java (like mouseovers) that we use causing some sort of problem - again - not true

most importantly - they are working on updating the WM guidelines to include things like - if youre gonna use pages with &id= with session ids youre just not gonna get crawled very well - if at all and other useful info like that thats been around for a while but was never included in the guidelines.

and lastly he did say that we are about half through the update and in another thread went into a little more detail saying that they almost have all the datacenters synched, but then would start adding in the filters and "quality enhancements" that they always do at the end of an update.

Hope this helps ya'll