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I mean, Google guys must recalculate the PageRank of every webpages... right.
But must they perform it on public servers (www2 and www3)? Can not they do it on private servers?
They can 'mirror' www2 and www2 before GoogleDance onto two servers, they recalculate PR, and put these two servers online as 'www2' and 'www3'.
It wouldn't make a difference. If Google didn't do this, then all the same people would be checking www.google.com if it was still 657,000 rather than www2. Though this would cut down on webmasters watching *during* the update praying their site will do better by the end, or praying they don't fall back at the end. ;)
Whether they need to be public I dont´t know. If you, however, would like them to be private there is a simple way for you to simulate just such a private update:
Dont´t look at www2.google and you will be happy. It´s as easy as that.
Andreas
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