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]

[paintbox]

There has been a lot of movement in my sector today. BD was more or less stationary for weeks until things suddenly moved around simultaneously on both BD and default. There now seems to be less difference between BD and default serps than before. Filters lifted/applied?

[jrs_66]

Why on earth would the people at google call this 'BigDaddy' if only minor issues were going to be fixed? They wouldn't... of course BigDaddy is an update, probably going to be a 'Big' update. Think about it.

[rkhare]

reseller, any idea when TBPR / BL export is expected?

[reseller]

rkhare

>>reseller, any idea when TBPR / BL export is expected?<<

108 days have passed since the last Page Rank Export took place. In theory it should happen within a week or so.

As to BL export, I'm not so sure.

[frakilk]

Yep in theory, welcome to the wonderful world of Google :)

[2by4]

I would guess that Jagger and some earlier updates, bourbon comes to mind, were introducing the new software google will be running, and bigdaddy is the new hardware that software is actually designed for. Something like that anyway. As BillyS noted elsewhere, any new infrastructure google rolls out is going to be running on opterons, 64 bit, since any other configuration would be stupid, and Google isn't stupid.

The delay fits with rolling out a major new infrastructure across a massive network, bugs and glitches always pop up in the most unexpected places once the stuff goes live. Obviously new infrastructure means new servers, and maybe new data handling components on the network end, maybe that dark fiber stuff google bought for example?

I see very little difference on quality content oriented sites I do, currently I'm not tracking heavily seoed sites anymore because I'm sick of that game, so I don't have a real sense of where those types of sites are in bigdaddy. But seoed sites, that's definitely a question for people who play that game, I'm sure it varies widely depending on niche, competition, and so on, and of course on what seo google found in jagger, and is currently allowing to come through into the standard serps. This is only, of course, my opinion, but if your site dipped in one or more of the jagger phases, I would be very nervous about the future of that site, even if it recovered later.

Anyway, onward with the DC watching, in the finest tradition of cervantes.

[afterburner]

reseller

for some of the sites I monitor I have noticed changes in PR as of today, do you think the PR update is going on?

[ulysee]

I'm selling my car to pay for my web bills because after Dec 27th my homepage dropped and I don't know why.

I created a backup plan "site" a year+ and oops this sandbox stuff hits it's finally out of the sandbox on BD.

Google drops sites for no reason and many self employed human lives go down the drain.

If Google want's to treat webmasters websites like stock market prices then there needs to be a watchdog group created to put pressure on Google to prevent it.

[Miop]

<watchdog group created to put pressure on Google to prevent it>

That's us! :)

[roooo]

ulysee

First time I react on this forum though I watched with great interest ...

I agree 100% with you, Google are playing with us!
We have to do something about it....

R.