New Google data center

www-gv

[palace4all]

I ve noticed that there is a new google data center called: www-gv.google.com and www-gv2.google.com on ip 216.239.59.100 and 216.239.59.101.

- no directory support.

regards from germany
uwe

[caveman]

Anyone care to offer an opinion on where AOL is getting their index from? It ain't any of the 10 listed in here. And it hasn't been for a few weeks now. It's either an old copy of the index that they're not updating (don't think so), or there's another lurking out there...I know because AOL has continually run a different set of SERP's in which our site does less well than all of the other nine...er, ten.

If the answer is in WW somewhere, I haven't been able to find it.

TIA
caveman

[lgn]

AOL, Alexia and Yahoo appears to be geting its
data from the San-Jose datacenter.

www-sj.google.com

[caveman]

Agreed that Yahoo is using one of the known dc's; maybe -sj...

But not the case with AOL. While great similarities exist between -sj and AOL, they are not the same. Again, it's easy for me to see because we have a site that *only* does poorly on AOL's index...it's doing well on all of the other 10 data centers, including -sj. On all of those, we're on page one of SERP's.

But we have been on page three of AOL's SERP's for two weeks now.

I have been unable to find a data center that shows us on page three as is the case with AOL's SERP's...all of the known dc's show us on page one...

But, there we are on page three over at AOL. Hmmm...

[kaled]

I may be wrong but I seem to recall reading somewhere that Google has the technology to let affiliates like AOL supply (slightly) different results by selecting different algo biassing.

Kaled.

[bcolflesh]

I thought AOL injected their own results into whatever data they received from Google - is it really done from G's end?

[caveman]

Up until recently, I've always been able to track the AOL SERP's to a one or more known data centers at any given time, i.e., identical SERP's for at least one known data center matched AOL results for a variety of keywords, different categories, down thru several pages.

Or at least if they were not matches I was always able to find what looked like matches; no variation in tested keywords. The only thing I noted was that there was often a lag time of several hours before AOL caught up to what was going on in the data centers, implying that either AOL was somehow carrying it's own copy of a Google index, or that there was another data center feeding AOL.

The difference now is that I can't find any center that matches AOL for a few phrases we follow. Significant differences. BTW, the AOL index resembles SERP's that are more like some of the problem SERP's people were complaining about during Dominic/Esmeralda... but I wouldn't put money on that; just a topline observation. Maybe it's just because we're not doing as well in AOL ;-)

<added>P.S. Kaled, maybe so...that would explain what I'm seeing, since the SERP's resemble a variation of the algo's that Google has since left behind...or so it seems.</added>

[palace4all]

ps:
there is a directory support on 216.239.59.104/Top/ and 216.239.59.105/Top/ but without any dns name resolution at the moment... it must be something like directory-gv.google.com or directory-gv2.google.com

[Powdork]

The new datacenter is now on the 'check you ranking across all datacenters helper thing'. Soon, we will need widescreens.

[JonR28]

FI seems to be based in VIRGINia....First In maybe...lmao ;)

Hey... I am from Herndon VA, and I resent that. lol, I am within 30 minutes of 4 of the datacenters. Little virginia is a big player in the internet these days.

The first two are only 10 minutes away from each other.
www-va Herndon, Virginia, USA (AOL)(5 minutes away from my house)
www-ab Sterling, Virginia, USA (15 minutes away from my house)
www-dc Washington, DC, USA (30 minutes away from my house)
www-fi USA, Virginia <-- Not sure about this one (can't be too far)

[jesserud]

I just added a bookmarklet for gv to go with the other datacenter bookmarklets.

[MonkeeSage]

Every time I query www for my keywords, I'm always in the same position in the SERPS...I mean there is never a variation at all exactly the same position. I'm in CA, USA. Am I always hitting the same datacenter by some stroke of chance, or are all the centers near 100% sync'd now, or what?

Jordan

[Dave_Hawley]

Please excuse the newbie question, but what are these 'data centers' that are constantly being show here? Each time somebody discovers a new one they post here and many others get rather excited, I don't know why though and feel I'm missing out :o(

Dave

[bwelford]

I have noticed that the www-gv datacenter always seems to show less external backlinks than all the other 9 datacenters. The others are usually showing very comparable results. www-gv can be running about half of the average backlinks count for the other centers.

Does anyone have an explanation of this?

Barry Welford

[percentages]

Hmmmm a slow data center in Dublin....that is asking for a bunch of Irish jokes ;)

[ronin]

Friday and Dave_Hawley>

If all you're interested in is SEO, a new datacentre is probably nothing to get too ruffled about.

If you're also interested in the ongoing development of Google however... >;->

<sigh> Does anyone still remember the 'Beta' at the bottom of the page? </sigh>

[fred9989]

<<"The new datacenter is now on the 'check you ranking across all datacenters helper thing'. Soon, we will need widescreens">>
Forgive my ignorance, but where do I find this helper thing?