Google Caffeine Diagram And The Salmon Terrine Algorithm

I love Google’s diagram explaining how their latest indexing system works. The old system was organised in layers, like a salmon terrine, while Caffeine looks like a cyclone rave of mess. I suppose that’s the difference – Caffeine is faster, and more sporadic to account for news, blogs and real time updates, as well as rich content from books and video.

“The image below illustrates how our old indexing system worked compared to Caffeine:”

via Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.

While I can see why they opted for the catchy name Caffeine rather than ‘Cyclone rave of mess’, I prefer ‘The Salmon Terrine Algorithm’ to the rather boring title ‘old index’. Never mind… at least there’s a little angry looking man to brighten the old one up a bit.

Posted: July 12th, 2010 under Search Engine Optimization.