Google Datacenters Watch: 2006-01-30

Observations, Analysis and Remarks

[johnwards]

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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]

[tedster]

A note from the Google Forum Charter [webmasterworld.com]

Here are some quick guidelines as to post types and phrases that
might trigger an action or prevent a pre-moderated post from being approved:

Is this the update - has the update ended or - when will the update start?

So let's stick to watching the Data Centers, thanks.

[reseller]

The Wealth of WebmasterWorld Library

Good morning Folks

We live to learn, share and make friends..

Among the thing which keep facinating me about WebmasterWorld community is the rich information which has been made available for webmasters worldwide.

The more you learn how to search for materials on WebmasterWorld the more you admire those generous webmasters who contributed valuable info within hundreds, maybe thousands of threads.

IMO, the best and shortest way to be a good Google Datacenters Watcher is to study previous updates threads. For example threads related to Allegra, Bourbon and Jagger updates. There you can study how to identify pre-updates signes and indications. And its really facinating readings. Very recommended readings indeed.

Personally, I pay attention to any set/group of DCs which start to show different search results than the rest for my test keywords and keyphrases. Here is today's "harvest ;-)

[64.233.187.99...]
[64.233.187.104...]

Wish you all a great day and a friendly discussion.

God bless our WebmasterWorld community

[colin_h]

Still no sign of a switch over to BD on AOL.co.uk. There were flashes of it about a week ago and that gave me the impression that the change would soon follow, but it soon disappeared not to be seen since.

In the past I've definately seen AOL results change prior to an accross the board update on all home page DC's.

All the best for a profitable day

Col :-)

[ramachandra]

Today I am seeing pre-jagger results with fresh cache dates in some the DC's. Anyone over here noticing the same?

[ct2000]

whats DCs are showing pre-Jagger?

[stu_uk]

Certainly seems that something is shifting my refs from google have tripled in the last couple of days.

[ramachandra]

On this data center it was showing me pre-jagger results [216.239.51.104....]

Now its back to normal results.

[dataguy]

Does anyone else see canonicalization issues being resolved with BD outside of the www/non-www issue?

I have a rather large site where writers post their writings. Because many of the writers post their articles on other sites as well, I'm sure that Google has a hard time knowing which URL to return in their results if two URL's contain very similar content (the original definition of canonicalization).

My site has had a steady increase of traffic nearly every day since BD started rolling out across the DC's. Given that BD is not an update, I don't see any other explanation for my increase in traffic other than G has decided to show my URL instead of others. This is certainly not something I'm complaining about as traffic from G is now up 110% from 3 weeks ago.

Just wondering if anyone else is seeing anything like this in BD?

[trinorthlighting]

Does anyone else see canonicalization issues being resolved with BD outside of the www/non-www issue?

Yes, all of my websites are fixed and I see no canonicalization. I did have to clean up some old links and pages that are no longer in service with the roll back of the index with the google url link removal.

[reseller]

dataguy & trinorthlighting

For how long you have had canonical problems?

Thanks.