Is Google Full?

madcow writes “Spam blogs and hardware may be at fault after Googles latest update called “Big Daddy”, says The Register.

“”Those machines are full,” he said. “We have a huge machine crisis.”
And there’s at least some anecdotal evidence to support the theory that hardware limitations are to blame.

“The issue I have now is Googlebot is SLAMMING my sites since last week, but none of it makes it into the index. If it’s old pages being re-indexed or new pages for the first page, they don’t show up,” writes one webmaster.

The confusion has several consequences which we’ve rarely seen discussed outside web circles.

Giving Google the benefit of the doubt, and assuming the changes are intentional, one webmaster writes: “In which case Google’s index, and hence effectively ‘the Web as most people know it’ is set to become a whole lot smaller in the coming weeks.”””