Search Engine Land’s Matt McGee reports Google will be launching the Caffeine index update, the one many believe is already live, in the upcoming months.

He received a statement from Google saying:

Why didn’t it launch after the holidays? What is the hold up with Caffeine launching? Google sent a statement about that:

Again, many people will swear it is live. It is live, but only in one of the many Google data centers. So just be patient and hopefully it will go live before Bing powers Yahoo fully.

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