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Reseller,
Having looked at these dc's in some detail, I have to disagree with you (tho glad you're making a comback!).
Because of major changes to a site I have in the OCT-FEB period, I can pinpoint the vintage of the index quite easily (and confirm the site specific results with others I am familiar with). What I see on these dc's is an index made up of ancient results (circa AUG 2005) with some additions from FEB or so.
If this truly is the result of the carnage of the switch to BD then Google has accomplished nothing in the FEB-15 to current timeframe.
If as you say, Google knows exactly what they're doing, what they are apparently trying to achieve is to augment the AUG-05 index with a few new pages. If you mean Google intended to "break down" the entire index and rebuild it "live" - unlike in the past where more or less finished updates rolled onto all dc's over a 5-7 day period - then I might agree. What I can't see is the reseller frindly ® dc's being anything but yet another interim step. The difference is, I see the process as scambling to try and fix an unanticipated scru-up, you see it as an deliberate plan.
Either way, I'm counting the days until Microsoft rolls out their new product as Google is ripe for the taking ... takes awhile for the public to turn against a SE but there certianly is precedent (remember when you couldn't turn on your TV without seeing ads for Lycos?).
From a webmaster point of view, the ideal world is MSN, Google, Yahoo with 30% market share each.
[edited by: tedster at 10:32 pm (utc) on April 6, 2006]
catch2948 - how many "real pages" do you have? - not Google recorded pages.Google seems to inflate these page no's at times [ i don't know what the inflation includes ]
Whitey: The site has about 3,000 pages currently. But grows dynamically, depending on visitor reviews, etc.
This is too far past April Fool's Day to be funny.
Something happened last night ....
I have a similar experience. What I observe in a niche seems to be a pre-jagger status, a certain pattern that I used to see before the Jagger. I do not know if this would stick, but I am sure that something major had happened within the last 24 hours.
This may not be amazing in itself but combined with the other craziness it makes me wonder what's up.
Someone posted that they saw the same search results across all datacentres. I posted to say that for me, that they were not all the same.
There were two main sets of results, about 50/50 split across the DCs: that is for some search query X, on half the DCs I get one particular set of results, and on the other half I get a different set, and then on one particular DC (URL IP posted several times in the last week already) I get something completely different again. This also occurs for a selection of other searches that were made.
Moreover, I see filters have been applied on several DCs.
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[edited by: tedster at 5:34 am (utc) on April 12, 2006]
