Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
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]
Two major groups, and one Class-C with the "wierd stuff".
When you say that you are seeing differences, what exactly are you looking at? Do you mean differences in index movement for your sites, or a "barometer" site, such as Yahoo, CNN, etc?
I still don't see any movement whatsoever today across any of the DCs in any of my observations.
Movement observed on the following DCs:
* Please note that I refer to # of indexed pages reported on the same site I mentioned earlier
66.249.87.99 81% increase (was 454; now 820)
66.249.87.104 81% increase (was 454; now 820)
Several others with minor movement of +1%
Important to note: First time in several days that movement across the board was all positive. No DCs reporting loss of indexed pages as of 11:00 PM
66.249.87.99 81% increase (was 454; now 820)
66.249.87.104 81% increase (was 454; now 820)
Quite the opposite on a site I'm monitoring :
66.249.87.99 decrease (was 238k ; now 53k )
66.249.87.104 decrease (was 254k ; now 53k )
I estimate that we have around 48k of actual webpages. The figures Google is quoting seem "wild" and i don't know why they record the inflated amount.
Pages are in the serps, but our results are way down on normal as we go through the re index process.
PR is holding on front page. All internal pages show "white".
44 Dcs showing indexed page increases, ranging from 1.1% to 4.5%
64.233.183.99: is showing a 41% decrease, but I have a feeling that this will change later today (same trend as 2 days ago)
By the way, my default datacenter is 72.14.203.104. This too shows the same result. A happy news for me.
Any improvements in your site positions?
Google seems to inflate these page no's at times [ i don't know what the inflation includes ]
"By the way, my default datacenter is 72.14.203.104. This too shows the same result. A happy news for me."
Very kind lovely gorgeous DC which brings happy news to resellers worldwide too. May the sun shine on 72.14.203.104 for ever ;-)
