Originally Posted by thommy

not true - the affiliate sites with useful information for the user and a broad range of alternatives are doing MUCH better then before.

what are effected are this kind of sites what are just made to send a user to one specific product (20 years ago we called them doorwaypages).

so IF a site is only made for selling one specific product and google can see that in the searchkey WHY should they send a user first to an affiliate site? that does not make sense.

if you search for amazon would you want they show you 100 affiliate sites and hide amazon.com ???

or if you search for "buying an iphone" would you expect to be send to a site what sends you to the shopping site or would you expect to see the shopping site right away?

this update is not done yet and it will takes weeks (if not months) til it is complete.
and after it is complete you will see even more fluctuation because google announced that already 2 years ago that they are working on a "single page index" what means nothing else that you can own a domain with 100 k subpages and if only ONE is relevant only this one page will appear (before the complete domain did not appear in such a case).
and they announced also that they will react in near real time.
and that means that your page can be number 1 in the morning and a few hours later you will not find it anymore.

I am wondering why everybody is so surprised about what happens - google told us LONG BEFORE what they are planing to do.

there is also not a war against porn.
I have a document from google what is deserved to their search qualitiy editors (they have hundreds up to thousands of them in each country) where they explain how to rate porn and erotic on a huge number of pages of this document . and there you can even see how difficult it is for them because the porn definition is different in every country.