As a small update on the new sandbox – I have been running this in the background this morning to give a better picture of what Google suggests will be the search rank of ‘Dublin hotels’ if the sandbox formula was inherited. The list shows that at the top the changes are, in the main, minor – but only in comparison to some of the violent swings seen in the outer reaches. The real points are that some sites have disappeared completely from the top fifty and others have shot to fame. Take The Hilton website, it doesn’t currently exist in the Google top 100 but would be installed in the top 10 under sandbox. To be specific – the same website is ranked around 400 currently! So if most of the sites have stayed the same (give or take) what has the Hilton in it’s arsenal that propels it so far and fast under the beta version?
| Website | Caffeine | Change | |
| http://www.goireland.com | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| http://www.dublinhotels.com | 2 | 4 | -2 |
| http://www.easytobook.com | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| http://www.laterooms.com | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| http://www.dublinhotelreservations.com | 5 | 6 | -1 |
| http://www.dublinevents.com | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| http://dublin.placestostay.com | 7 | 16 | -9 |
| http://www.lastminute.com | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| http://www.jurysinns.com | 9 | 8 | 1 |
| http://www.hilton.co.uk/dublin | 10 | – | New |
| http://www.dublinsbesthotels.com | 11 | 10 | 1 |
| http://dublinhotels.ebookireland.com | 12 | 11 | 1 |
| http://www.theclarence.ie | 13 | 20 | -7 |
| http://www.doylecollection.com | 14 | 15 | -1 |
| http://dublin.city-centre-hotels.com | 15 | 14 | 1 |
| http://travel.yahoo.com | 16 | 17 | -1 |
| http://www.hotelscombined.com | 17 | – | New |
| http://www.irelandby.com | 18 | 12 | 6 |
| http://directrooms.com/ | 19 | 24 | -5 |
| http://www.merrionhotel.com | 20 | 23 | -3 |
| http://www.holidaycityeurope.com/ | 21 | 21 | 0 |
| http://www.radissonblu.ie/royalhotel-dublin | 22 | – | New |
| http://www.gresham-hotels.com | 23 | 25 | -2 |
| http://www.redcowhotel.com | 24 | 35 | -11 |
| http://www.booking.com | 25 | – | New |
| http://www.dublintourist.com | 26 | 22 | 4 |
| http://www.dublinhotelmap.com | 27 | 32 | -5 |
| http://www.morrisonhotel.ie | 28 | 40 | -12 |
| http://www.dylan.ie | 29 | 31 | -2 |
| http://www.ocallaghanhotels.com | 30 | 27 | 3 |
| http://www.isaacs.ie/ | 31 | – | New |
| http://www.marriott.co.uk/ | 32 | 39 | -7 |
| http://www.dublinevents.com | 33 | 29 | 4 |
| http://www.brookshotel.ie | 34 | 42 | -8 |
| http://www.visitdublin.com | 35 | – | New |
| http://www.bewleyshotels.com/ | 36 | 28 | 8 |
| http://www.greenislehotel.com | 37 | – | New |
| http://www.europe-cities.com | 38 | 49 | -11 |
| http://www.hotelschart.com/dublin | 39 | – | New |
| http://www.herbertparkhotel.ie | 40 | 43 | -3 |
| http://www.hotel-ireland.com | 41 | 30 | 11 |
| http://dublin-hotels.travelwand.com | 42 | 19 | 23 |
| http://www.irelandhotels.com/ | 43 | 45 | -2 |
| http://www.cpireland.crowneplaza.com | 44 | 36 | 8 |
| http://www.dublinskylonhotel.com | 45 | 48 | -3 |
| http://www.dublincitihotel.com | 46 | – | New |
| http://www.carnegiecourt.com | 47 | – | New |
| http://www.d4hotels.ie | 48 | 50 | -2 |
| http://www.goireland.com | 49 | 13 | 36 |
| http://www.portmarnock.com | 50 | – | New |
| http://www.expedia.co.uk/ | 3 | ||
| http://www.bewleyshotels.com | 9 | ||
| http://www.fitzwilliamhotel.com | 18 | ||
| http://www.carltondublinairport.com | 26 | ||
| http://www.dublinuncovered.net | 33 | ||
| http://www.regencyhotels.com | 34 | ||
| http://www.tripadvisor.com/ | 37 | ||
| http://www.apartmentsapart.com | 38 | ||
| http://www.dublinhotels.jurysinns.com | 41 | ||
| http://www.burlingtonhotel.ie | 44 | ||
| http://www.thegrand.ie | 46 | ||
| http://www.maldronhotels.com | 47 |
Where has all the web gone?
The beta search results are showing that the number of web pages in the results are dramatically reduced. For example the number of results for Dublin Hotel Offers is back close to 9 million – of 50% less in the Beta. The figure in my opinion was mainly a redundant one unless you were doing come competitive stuff.
| Term | +/- on G |
| Dublin hotels offers | -8,940,000 |
| Cheap hotels Dublin | -8,750,000 |
| Hotels Dublin | -8,130,000 |
| Hotels in Dublin | -7,980,000 |
| Dublin hotels | -7,770,000 |
| Dublin City Hotels | -7,510,000 |
| Dublin hotel deals | -5,910,000 |
| Weekend Break Dublin | 251,000 |
| Dublin City Centre Hotels | 570,000 |
But should we suggest that Google intends to kill off (in indexing terms) about 9 million pages for the expression Dublin Hotel Offers? Would it save anything?