Hi,
Op 3 dec. 2019, om 11:29 heeft Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk> het volgende geschreven:
On Tue Dec 03, 2019 at 11:17:04AM +0200, ivaylo wrote:
The idea is very good ! As all google services are fully dual stack already and running perfectly on IPV6, I dont think will be technical unimposible.
The only problem is how can we make google do this?
It's been suggested to them many times at over the years (probably started with v6 day) but it's failed to get attention.
May be we've never run into the right people to tell, other than telling any googler you meet maybe it needs to find a way higher up.
I have been talking to Vint Cerf about this for many years now. Doesn't get much higher than that ;) The problem is not that they don't care, but that they want to keep the pagerank score exclusively for things that improve the user experience, not to push technical things. I have reasoned that for more and more users having the website reachable over IPv6 *does* improve their experience (avoiding CGN and NAT64, I have DS-Lite at home and if websites are slow it's always because it's IPv4-only and the stupid CGN is slowing everything down) but I guess the percentage of impacted users isn't significant enough for Google to adjust their rating algorithm for. But I am sure that percentage will grow, and that Google will take it into account when they deem it significant enough. I hope Google starts soon though, even with only a very minor impact on the ranking to start with. I'd already be perfectly happy with Google publicly stating that IPv6 has an impact, even if that impact is 1e-100 (one googolth?). Just telling SEO people that IPv6 has *some* impact on their SEO will trigger a significant percentage of the hosting market. But their ranking algorithm is one of Google's trade secrets, so I'm sure we'll never know exactly what the impact will be :) Cheers, Sander