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]

[Eazygoin]

I'm not sure this is BD rolling out - maybe its another effect all together.

On that point, I entirely agree, unless someone can give me specifics to the contrary, as I see NO BD Update started, NO rollout of BD, NO specific/drastic changes in the data bases.

MC says one thing, and some of the posts on here say another. He said that the BD DC's would spread one at a time every 10 days or so, until full integration around mid March.

So, where is all this Welcome to Big Daddy Update coming from? If I am wrong then I apologise, but to me it seems irrational until proven.

[jrs_66]

I think the hype this morning is being caused by the non data center watching crowd finally noticing the effects of BD... I see no significant changes other than BD.

[Ellio]

Yes it would appear that those "Singing and Dancing" had not previously posted in a Big Daddy thread and may not have checked their positions before.

In my opinion nothing has changed other than resellers opinion.

[Powdork]

I am currently getting 13 BigDaddy DC's using the 'sf giants' test on mcdar. The changes I saw to serps occurred to the non BigDaddy result set. Previously, for my pet search, there were two sets of results:
1. BigDaddy- My site is at #1 with proper title and description. There are some minor supplemental issues and still one problem directory.
2. Non-Big Daddy- Site is as #3 with url only listing for home page. Only nine of the 42 indexable pages have proper listings.

Yesterday, a new set began to propagate that has my site at #1 with the url only listing and now that set of results has taken over as the non BigDaddy results.

[BillyS]

For all those non-believers:

Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. Look around you will see others reporting the same thing on other forums.

As far as BigDaddy spreading, that's reseller's opinion. If you check this thread, he says that Welcome to BigDaddy every five days or so. I'm not sure why he does it, maybe just to get you guys going. He knows exactly what Matt said and a quick check on the Mc tool proves him wrong.

One of the reasons you might not notice this update is because maybe you weren't affected during the September 22nd update - I was. About 6:00 on Friday, I was looking at my logs an noticed a lot of traffic from Google. I checked and sure enough, I was ranking on phrases that I hadn't ranked on since September.

[diddlydazz]

IMHO

some filters have been lifted/applied/tweaked in the last 24 hours on certain dcs.

BD has and is continuing to propogate to other DCs.

fluctuations in "results returned" are quite big, similar to those pre-update.

good luck to all over the next few weeks!

dazz

[Eazygoin]

See them Reporting what BillyS?

I certainly don't see anyone else reporting a Bag Daddy Update.

If you are referring to changes in the SERP's, then yes, I agree, there have been some, but to make such statements as 'BD Update'as if it were happening this weekend, when there is no such thing, is in my view, misleading.

[tedster]

Brett and WebmasterWorld normally name updates. But this is neither an update nor a data refresh; this is new infrastructure. It should be much more subtle/gentle than an update.

[mattcutts.com...]

So let's not use the "U" word, it just confuses things. Let the rest of the Internet be confused if it needs to be -- let's work for clarity here.

[Miop]

<One of the reasons you might not notice this update is because maybe you weren't affected during the September 22nd update - I was. About 6:00 on Friday, I was looking at my logs an noticed a lot of traffic from Google. I checked and sure enough, I was ranking on phrases that I hadn't ranked on since September. >

My site was first hit for non-www/www on 11th June 2005. In September it took a final nose-dive.
Only just now can I see improvements in the 11th June problem.

[randle]

For us we have experienced what looks like a roll back to the results we enjoyed prior to Jagger. Not all centers, maybe two thirds of them. Not an update, but definitely a different look to the SERP's we watch, and our positions now look like what we had prior to Jagger, like some sort of filter was lifted.