Google Datacenters Watch 2006-04-06

[bobmark]

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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]

[reseller]

Armi & rkhare

Pls try on these 3 DCs and tell us what you see.

[64.233.171.104...]

[64.233.179.104...]

[64.233.187.104...]

Thanks.

[RichTC]

reseller

Those three show SERPS with lots of pages that havent been mixed in yet. So they are not fully updated serps results yet imo

[reseller]

RichTC

"reseller

Those three show SERPS with lots of pages that havent been mixed in yet. So they are not fully updated serps results yet imo"

I haven't chosen the 3 DCs for their quality, but just to see whether the problem is acrooss several DCs ;-)

[Armi]

@reseller

No changes :-(

[reseller]

Armi

"@reseller

No changes :-( "

Few days from now, you get your smile back, hopefully. Who knows what will happen next during these everfluxing days :-)

[petehall]

This is beyond tedious now.

It's almost like a religion now... all we have left is our faith.

[Armi]

@reseller

"Few days from now, you get your smile back, hopefully. Who knows what will happen next during these everfluxing days :-)"

I´m hoping you have right!

[kneukm03]

Something is happening today, or this weekend. I just had several sites get "partially" de-sandboxed. I qualify that just because it has only happened to some terms, and it sort of looks like it is only on the older ones (there are still a lot of pages added within the last few months that aren't on there, and not all terms are near where I think they "should" rank.) However, it is clearly a removal of a filter on some terms - i.e. from ranking at 500 to ranking 9, and I hadn't noticed any changes in these SERPS since about february.

My guess is that they are fixing the SERPS in batches, not all terms at once.

[rkhare]

no change for me too on reseller DC's. Hope to see fvourable changes soon.

just checked, its across the DC's

[edited by: rkhare at 7:29 pm (utc) on April 14, 2006]

[rookiecrd1]

I just noticed in the last 3 days my authority site has gone from 250,000 pages indexed to just about 80,000.

Anyone else having this problem with lower number of pages beign indexed the last few days?