How come OSE never updated on time?

[Eavesy]

I need fresh data

[RyanKent]

The next update is scheduled for Friday. https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule

The update calendar is a best guess. Crawling billions of web pages and processing all that data into a usable format at a cost of $500k each time is not easy.

[bradkrussell]

$500k woah! Really?

David - SEOmoz has a HUGE job on their hands. Sometimes they are late but they are always transparent and honest about this. Let's just be patient and let them do their job.

[NoahsDad]

As there other folks have said billions of web pages is a lot of work. But the question you have is why is the work not done by the time they say it will be done sometimes.

They have posted detailed explanations every time there was a problem. (Including this week.) Have you had a chance to check out there posts?