If you weren’t aware or curious how current sites will fit in with Google’s next version of their search engine, you can go play around in the sandbox.

Caffeine Playground: http://www2.sandbox.google.com/

Word on the street is Wikipedia is deemed an auto-autoritiative source and content is held in high regard by the new versions of algorithms. In fact, after discussion with a few comrades in the industry, it seems preliminary testing (by others) indicates ‘authoritative’ sites or brands get huge weight compared to (now and compared to) non-authoritative sites such as blogs or syndication-driven sites.

At first glance, this leads me to believe legit* link-building will gain more importance, as it demonstrates to Google your site content is the authority on a particular topic. Goal: for a particular topic, service offering or product, have one main landing page and 3-5 sub-pages on your site with relevant content to the optimized topic. Inbound links should point towards the single landing page, and entry to the 3-5 sub-pages should be gated by the single landing page.

Despite the downplay of importance on syndication sites, it also seems as if Twitter is being indexed in near-real time. If you’re twitter feed is public (and has unique content) it appears as if there’s a 30-minute lag time from tweet-to-indexed-by-google. Sweetness.

*By legit link-building I mean non-Digg.com-like sites; who actually have lost significant value as a result of being a syndication site.