Google Datacenters Watch: 2006-01-30

Observations, Analysis and Remarks

[johnwards]

< continued from [webmasterworld.com...] >

This is just odd.

The 64.* DC's return about 300 pages from my site.

The 216.* DC's return about 46,000 pages from my site.

And the 66.* return 69,000 pages from my site.

Currently I have about 65,000 pages.

If I go to google.co.uk I get 46,000 pages. If I go to google.com from my US based server I get the same 46,000 results.

It is all very odd and confusing.

[edited by: tedster at 9:56 pm (utc) on Jan. 30, 2006]

[Dayo_UK]

>>>>Because PR is meaningless as a standalone measure.

Maybe to an extent if you are comparing PR2 to P5 or PR1 to PR2 but when you get a PR0 it is slightly different.

Ellio

Cant think of anything more to say about BD until something else happens.

With ref to that quote re Mozilla Googlebot - that might be out of date now - Mozilla Googlebot became more heriachal in its crawling activity (as in what you might expect from a normal Gbot) just before BD appeared.

But who knows - it might be building the framework and then when G are happy normal Googlebot will follow the path lead by Mozilla Googlebot.

[Ellio]

Simply hate to see this thread turn into an argument about the merits or otherwise of PR!

Its so far been interestingly focused on Big Daddy spreading to new data centers and unusual behaviour at default DC's.

[Evis]

My Site is resonably very new. Its not very big site and i hve spend only one month on its on page factors. While seeing its cached pages in G, this is what i got :

The following DCs showing only one cached page of my site that is Home Page.
66.102.9.99
66.102.9.104
66.102.11.99
66.102.11.104
216.239.59.104

While following DCs showing 30 cached pages..
[216.239.51.104...]
[216.239.51.99...]

What do i conclude.. DCs starting from (66) hve BD applied on them?

[Dayo_UK]

Evis

I think that is a common factor for a few of us.

Some new sites internal pages only exist in BD DCs at the moment.

The ones you listed showing only 1 page are not BD Dcs.

[Eazygoin]

On his original post for BD feedback, he said But this is neither an update nor a data refresh; this is new infrastructure. It should be much more subtle/gentle than an update.

I think that was clearer, and less ambiguous than the later comment.

[reseller]

Eazygoin

Matt has stated several times that BigDaddy is a switching over to a new infrastructure. If that is the case, then BigDaddy should be considered as an update, according to Matt own definition:

What’s an update? September 8, 2005 @
[mattcutts.com...]

"Usually, what registers with an update to the webmaster community is when we update an algorithm (or its data), change our scoring algorithms, or switch over to a new piece of infrastructure."

Thoughts?

[Ellio]

As he has recently said both:

"But this is neither an update nor a data refresh; this is new infrastructure. It should be much more subtle/gentle than an update."

can't get clearer than that, but then:

"Usually, what registers with an update to the webmaster community is when we update an algorithm (or its data), change our scoring algorithms, or switch over to a new piece of infrastructure."

It is clear that he is not clear!

However I believe that first statement was simply making it clear that this change was not related to algo updates like Florida, Bourbon, Jagger etc.

[Eazygoin]

My thoughts are that perhaps we should ask him on his blog, as clarity is paramount so as to know what the future holds :-)

[aldo]

mcdar tool shows at the moment 22 DC's with BD
this morning was 18
any comments?

[Ellio]

As I said this morning - BD is definately spreading faster than expected.