What ever happend to the DataCenter Watch thread?

Is it still relevent.

[lgn1]

All thru 2006, evey week their was a a DataCenter watch thread.

Was the DataCenter watch thread driven by the BIGDADDY Google Infrastructure thread, and is no longer relevent.

Do people watch the datacenters anymore, or have things calm down so much, that it is no worth reporting?

[ogletree]

I watch them still. It is not very often than just a few show some big change. The changes seem to just show up everywhere. Sometimes you see half of them with updates. They like to do big things on weekends and holidays. I sometimes get a rogue datacenter for www.google.com. When that happens I can't figure out how to get to it by IP no matter what I do. It also seems like i'm the only one with those results. I'm also not logged into G.

[tedster]

I think a lot of wind came out of the sail -- people began to notice that another "layer" of filtering often gets applied on top of the pure datacenter results when the data hits google.com. That is, the data you see there is less and less predictive about what "might" happen on the production level SERPs. Some of it is purely experimental, in fact.

[BillyS]

The paint dried and the grass stopped growing...

[walkman]

hwo about now DC Watchers :): Are the results settled or...? My traffic is still up (>2X what was a week ago, but still low) so I am wondering which results will be spread out.

[Oliver Henniges]

If I remember correctly, in many of the datacenter-watch-threads some of the google insiders posted some comments. This is what made the threads so interesting. Thereby adam lasnik announced the implemetation of the big daddy infrastucture, which should be finished by the end of summer 2006 (in fact I personally found it had been finished by the end of spring 2007 with the last TBPR-update).

I think this new infrastructure has led to a much more continuous update-process, so that watching datacenters does no longer reveal as fruitful insights into future development as it used to. The SERPs show almost daily changes now, which in fact has been criticised on various occasions: it may be more accurate, but searchers use the google results to find a page they forgot to bookmark, which in some cases has become quite difficult now.

Last but not least it was resellers very kind and polite way to sort of inofficially moderate the threads, which maybe helped a lot to attract adam and vanessafox contributing. The prices fo coffee and cappucchino have gone up tremendously in Europe since then, so I assume reseller lacks some of his energy now;)

[lgn1]

Thanks, for the history lesson.

I lost interest when my keywords finally made it to the top 10, and never really made it back for 6 months, which is like 60 SEO years :)

[g1smd]

Those datacentre watch threads have morphed into the SERP changes <insert date> threads..

[ogletree]

Well I would like to announce that there seems to be some sort of update right now. Looks like Google has turned some knobs again. I'm seeing some minor changes on all the dc's that I watch.

[g1smd]

That new NYT article hints at several changes per week these days....

[walrus]

...which is like 60 SEO years

hehe,

Tweaking like crazy this year.
Its like franknsteins lab.
.....Top ten then....click click, whirrrr beedeeebeedeebeedee,
Yoink!

Whole of 2007, over and over, daily, weekly, monthly, all over the place with traffic.

[walkman]

ogletree,
changes still sticking for and now 99% of my pages are in the regular index (up from ~90% a week or so ago). Needless to say I am happy since I think it will even get better. I wonder if G calculates trust a little by little and increases rank as you go...