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]

[sonnyk]

bobmark,
no re-directs or anything,
I just checked though and links from those home pages do link back to the original .com site. So looks like they are not duplicate sites, just dup home pages - w/ different Titles.

I thought maybe they where Alias names pointing back to the .com site but they all had different Titles (similar to my website title and others sites) so im assuming they are not simply Aliases?

they do not rank near the top in any of the dc's I've checked recently, as I mentioned before though, they did show up on the 1st page in the 2 dc's that I had been watching for the past 2 weeks. (64.233.187.99 and 64.233.187.104).
I was really surprised to see them all together on the front page.

[reseller]

Welcome to Today's Reseller Friendly DCs
Only on WebmasterWorld :-)

Good morning Folks

It seems that some DCs are more faithful Reseller Friendly DCs than others and they have been stabile since the begining untill now and I have marked them by ##. While some other DCs have left me others have just joined the troops and I'm leaving them without marking :-)

[64.233.171.99...] ##
[64.233.171.104...] ##

[64.233.185.99...] ##
[64.233.185.104...] ##

[64.233.187.99...]
[64.233.187.104...]

[72.14.203.99...] ##
[72.14.203.104...] ##

Wish you all a great DCs watching day.

[Dayo_UK]

I still get the feeling that Google are not using the Mozilla Googlebot ranking structure for the serp positions and they are relying on an old/flawed ranking from a while back.

EG. We finally get a PR update using the Mozilla Googlebot generated PR and BL for new pages - while all the old pages retain PR from the old Googlebot.

To me it still feels like they are using the old Googlebot for serp positions as well as PR on the pages already in the serps.

Which is incredibly annoying at this stage because Google has been able to re-apply PR to a number of sites hit by one of the many Googlebugs - but this PR only seems to be cosmetic at this stage.

Whether they are just waiting to switch it over and they are doing a few tests at the plex I dont know.....

[ariane]

Hallo Hallo...I see huge changes in SERPS overall in travel.

[reseller]

ariane

Hallo Hallo.. can you post the IP of your default Google.com or of the datacenters on which you have noticed huge changes :-)

[reseller]

Dayo_UK

"... but this PR only seems to be cosmetic at this stage. "

Or one can say: this PR only seems to be surgical at this stage ;-)

[petehall]

I'm seeing updated results too on 64.233.187.104 and my default Google UK/.com, however they are radically different from what's been sat there for the past week or so.

[reseller]

petehall

"I'm seeing updated results too on 64.233.187.104 and my default Google UK/.com"

Thanks for the good news. I told you that you can count on The Reseller Friendly DCs. What you saw is nothing less than the new Shining Google in action. Lucky you ;-)

[petehall]

reseller the results are really favourable to my existing sites, however unkind to the newer ones (unlike the past results seen on that DC), which is a shame.

I really don't think the solution to ranking a fast changing medium like the Internet is to base the algorithm on time... but that's just my humble opinion.

I can see arguments for and against this to be fair.

Some genius is out there with a solution I'm sure... :)

[rossendryv]

I might be wrong but it seems like following Data Centers updates can be equated to watching a lotto machine draw numbers these days. There are to many DC to follow and some changing hourly with minor and sometimes major fluctuations in results and then reverting the results backwards. It seem like it is becoming a waste of time as one can only speculate as to which results will eventually be delivered.