The New Google is like a Slide Show

[dvduval]

It almost seems as if there is a purposeful bouncing between data centers over the last few days. I would say there have been no less than 30 flips back and forth between indexes. I'm wondering if this may be a quality that we will come to experience on a regular basis. I don't recall ever seeing this many flips back and forth.

I have a theory that the datacenters are going to be somewhat like a slide show. Google will keep throwing in slides (new SERPS with new backlinks) and keep hitting the next frame button. This could be exciting!

[mrguy]

If this is going to be the new Google, please turn off the power!

The slide show seems to missing about half the slides!

[Chief]

Sort of makes since. I think this would be a very possible occurance. I am still constantly showing different results (flipping) for the same keywords.

[dvduval]

Remember GoogleGuy mentioned that all the datacenters would need to get the new index before the fireworks started happening. Question: Why do all the datacenters need to be involved? They must certainly have a greater role planned for them besides testing servers, right?

The slide show seems to missing about half the slides!

I think the slides are ready to role. They just need to install the projectors at the remaining datacenters. It appears they are at 5 out of 9 right now and recent feedback suggests we will see the same flip flop between 2 indexes (last month's and this month's) for a week or two...And then the fun begins!

[jdancing]

It would make a lot of sense to take the top .1% of keyword results and randomly rotate them. Instead of searching and getting the top 10 sites that are best SEO'd for Google, one may find the best site in the top 10 once in a while. Adwords would also become more valuable....

[dvduval]

The only other reason I can think they would need all those servers would be for Geocentric results, but I don't think that is the case since they are able to diplay results in different languages as it stands now.

I think what we will likely see is Google to the 9th Power. There will be nine updates instead of one, and in addition, they will flip results between datacenters.

Get ready to optimize for 9 Googles!
(or should I say Googleplex)

[Oaf357]

Very interesting idea Dvduval.

It would make sense though. The datacenters could all do their own work. Crawling everything it can get its hands on. Overlapping crawls would occur and would have to be controlled to a certain extent but once that was hammered out you'd essentially have a meta-Google. Where Google.com would pull results from the datacenters.

You could also set up some very area specific crawls resulting in more locale based SERPS.

[deft_spyder]

or you guys can remember that this is a fluid launch of the new index as googleguy has said about a million times, so the constantly changing results, backlinks, and data center jumping is already explained.

[netnerd]

Correct Deft.

[dvduval]

You seem very well informed, deft_spyder.
Cheers!