Google Update Bourbon - Part 1

Has the sandbox been busted?

[Dayo_UK]

continued from: [webmasterworld.com...]

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Seeing something happening on 64.233.163.104 and 64.233.167.104 - might be worth keeping an eye on.

[helleborine]

I'm seeing 4 sets of results across the datacenters. The Google Directory page with my listing still hogs first place for my site name, with the real McCoy between position 50-55.

[taps]

I can see some slight movements upwards for some of my pages with very competitive keyphrases. Hope this will go on like this.

[arras]

"Seeing something happening on 64.233.163.104 and 64.233.167.104 - might be worth keeping an eye on."
Sorry but those are old results
By the way ,like General MacArthur, "i am back"
IN THE TOPS

[patchacoutek]

helleborine
How can you check out the four sets of results in the datacenters, is there any program or free service you couls recommand to keep an eye on the stabilisation process?

I'm quite confuse my ranking program says position 12 for example, but when I check on google is still 24 for example...

And also, how can you determine the old and the new results, if the are changing every day?

Thanks

[helleborine]

patchacoutek,

Google: "Google Data Centers" and you'll find several tools to check the datacenters!

Or maybe use Yahoo as a protest!

[McMohan]

Well spotted Dayo_UK. Some significant movements there.

Results look pretty neat 'coz my sites are ranking well :p

[needinfo]

arras

what makes you say the results on 64.233.163.104 and 64.233.167.104 are old results?

[arras]

needinfo
because I don't want to reveal my site's url that today after 4 months Alegra penalty is back in the fresh results.

[arras]

64.233.163.104 and 64.233.167.104
Oh by the way now I am top in those as well.Thank you Google.

[needinfo]

arras

So you mean your site is now showing in Google.com and not on the 2 IP addresses discovered by Dayo UK.

[arras]

needinfo
I am everywhere

[arras]

It is a Great UPDATE

[reseller]

Folks

Is it a real UPDATE this time or are we still talking about the same thing that Brett heard on Corner of Haight and Ashbury .."Minor Shuffling"

[Dayo_UK]

The main problem is what some may call minor shuffling others may call a big update.

Still just on those DCs.

They are not old results (they might be like previous results for you arras but I dont think they are as it were "Reverted back" to a previous index)

[McMohan]

Sandboxed sites are still sandboxed for me on those IPs, though now they are atleast ranked for their own names :)

[helleborine]

Weird. Searched for my site title, found my site at position 150-something.

So on SERP page 15, there are two results from my site.

My INDEX page is INDENTED from some internal page of no particular significance, like the internal page is chosen at random.

Why would be index page in indented, rather than the other way around?

I'm also getting WAY more hits than usual from Google Images. How weird is that? This isn't giving me the right clientele at all.

[mrMister]

Why would be index page in indented, rather than the other way around?

Maybe they haven't finished iterating through the pagerank calculations.

[patchacoutek]

For the actual time ( I've been following this update since 3 days now, I can say the results are moving going down 20 and then going up 25 and the down 10 ... It's not over, for certain sites I would say, seems that a lot of people didint notice big changes in this update/shuffle.

[mrMister]

BTW, there's more information on these data centres here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[Dayo_UK]

Gosh - that was ages ago - I wonder if that finally rolled out into the early April update? There was a change late March too (EFV was affected).

[taps]

Cannot see any changes on 64.233.163.104 and 64.233.167.104.

However I see changes on
216.239.53.104
66.102.7.104
66.102.7.105
66.102.7.147
66.102.7.99
216.239.53.99

Good changes for me. But still no effect on my figures. Hope these changes will appear on other DCs too.

[arras]

"they might be like previous results for you arras but I dont think they are as it were "Reverted back" to a previous index"
i's only for me ,not "Reverted back"

[europeforvisitors]

There was a change late March too (EFV was affected).

Yes, it was on March 23, when Danny Sullivan called it a "significant update" at SearchEngineWatch.

By the way, I hope those results at the data centers mentioned by taps don't stick; they're absolutely horrible from my point of view! (I don't see any changes in backlinks, for that's worth.)

[edited by: europeforvisitors at 2:49 pm (utc) on May 20, 2005]

[JuniorOptimizer]

With minor updates like this one I can retire soon. Traffic is way up since yesterday.

[helleborine]

Two MSN Groups I participated in, that were in #1 position, have dropped into the abyss today. Meaning?

[Dayo_UK]

Got to admit taps - not to keen on the datacenters you mentioned.

And the dance (Minor Shuffling - Incremental Indexing - Not an update ;)) goes on. Oops thread just got changed (I am not conviced yet though)

[edited by: Dayo_UK at 4:07 pm (utc) on May 20, 2005]

[Brett_Tabke]

Just back from Haight and Ashbury again. Deep Search is confirming that the lava lamp has been turned on high. Comparing a quick dozen or so of mine (not checked since last week), show some significant movement and links alterations.

[Brett_Tabke]

u called it Dayo. check some of the top money kw's.

[Dayo_UK]

Yay ;) - might get my first front page if it turns out to be true.