Recently I have been noticing that Google indexes my website a lot more often. I JUST changed one page a couple of days ago and it has already updated the search results. GOOO GOOGLE!
I have three Google alerts set to notify me when Google indexes new pages containing search terms that I specify. (see www.google.com/alerts). I am notified, in Google's terms, "as it happens." I usually receive 2 emails a day (the third one is for my home town, which doesn't appear often). However, today I have received no less than 10 emails with a lot more links to stories than I usually receive. Makes me wonder if the update that Matt Cutts was talking about in this interview: http://www.revenews.com/colinmcdougall/2006/02/takeaways_from_discussion_with.html is happening now.
To quote from the article:
"With the upcoming Google update rolling out towards the end of this month or possibly early March, there will be a very serious focus on eliminating spam from the index.
"What you can expect to see in the next update:
In November, Matt Cutts mentioned to me that the following issues would be part of the algorithm update that is coming:
1. An increased focus on duplicate content filters.
The duplicate content filters will have more sophistication to determine what site was the original owner for the content. This will eliminate at least 3 problems:
? Scraper sites stealing content and profiting from it.
? Reduce the effectiveness of artificial inflation of link popularity via article distribution. (if performed en-mass, this is manipulation of the SERP?s)
? Automated article generation software
By including advancement with LSI technology into the duplicate content filters, Google will be making a huge step towards the elimination of auto-generated websites which are at the core of search engine spam.
2. 302 redirect exploit problem is supposed to be fixed. Finally!"
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And there is more. Anyone else getting a lot of Google alerts or maybe they know something else?

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