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]

[King of all Sales]

ramachandra
I'm seeing very different results on [216.239.59.104....] and two other dc's.

[colin_h]

I'm seeing Big Daddy results on AOL.co.uk again (see earlier comments). [aolsearch.aol.co.uk...] shows the "sf giants" test clearly working.

Addition: Have checked again and results are switching back and forth, so nothing solid yet ... but the signs are good for the 2nd Feb ;-)

[Ellio]

I am getting [www...] .sfgiants.com/ as the result from your link so its gone away again.

Probably switching around like google.co.uk has all month.

[dataguy]

For how long you have had canonical problems?

I would have never said that I had canonicalization problems, certainly not the www/non-www type of canonicalization problems.

We've enjoyed good rankings for many of our pages but with BD many more of our pages are ranking well. My theory is that since our site has been around longer than most of the others that have similar content, our pages are now out ranking theirs. I don't know how else to explain that BD has boosted our traffic so greatly.

[jrs_66]

Briefly saw BD in Boston for the first time.

[hvacdirect]

We've got it here right now in Rochester, MN in the regular search results.

[Pico_Train]

Got Big Daddy right here in Cape Town and might I add, it was very warm and sunny here today...

:)

[trinorthlighting]

reseller,

I had the issue for a few months now. I still am not getting my full site indexed though. One thing I am noticing is that the pages that are not being indexed are the pages I have in froogle and googlebase. Now a very interesting thing I noticed today was when I did a search for a product on one of google's data centers. The first result listed as such:

Product search results for LED MR-16
12 LED MR 16 - $18.62 - Tri North Lighting
24 LED MR 16 - $31.92 - Tri North Lighting
Mr-16 Mr16 Lampholder Led Bulk Pack 50 Count - $79.00 - Paranoic Shopper

Below that it listed information about LED - MR-16 bulbs and not products for sale....

Now I looked at these links and they were all froggle links. We all know that google wants to seperate products for sale versus information about topics. I have noticed a huge surge in traffic today via the froogle links. I would say that there are some large changes in the structure happening. I am glad I have 100% of my items for sale listed in froogle and google base....

[Eazygoin]

Interesting to note that on [64.233.179.104...] the SERP's are showing ALL URL's relating to many keywords from a single site, whereby normally there may be a main URL with one single indented URL. I have seen examples of 15 URL's listed simultaneously for one website, with a main URL, followed by 14 indented inner pages.

I have also noted that other URL's that were there previously for the same keyword, in prime position [first page], no longer exist. One example of this was an auction site that had half of the results for a keyword with only 76 results, belonging to them. The URL's were listed with this keyword, but in different geographical areas. Now they have all gone.

[hvacdirect]

Read on a blog that Matt Cutt's is supposed to be on a webmaster FM something or other tonight at 7:00 Eastern. They listed BigDaddy as a possible topic.