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]
For example, one of my sites is a product review type site, and is driven entirely by fresh content from user reviews, independent lab reports, etc. All reviews, etc. are manually reviewed, and either approved, or denyed (done on a daily basis for freshness).
The following results are from site:mydomain.com checks on each of 45 different DCs for the aforementioned site:
64.233.183.99 - added 295 pages (showed 551 yesterday, showing 846 today)
64.233.183.104 - added 294 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 846 today)
66.102.9.99 - added 294 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 846 today)
66.102.9.104 - added 294 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 846 today)
66.102.11.99 - added 294 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 846 today)
66.102.11.104 - added 294 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 846 today)
66.249.85.99 - added 295 pages (showed 551 yesterday, showing 846 today)
66.249.85.104 - added 295 pages (showed 551 yesterday, showing 846 today)
66.249.87.99 - added 294 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 846 today)
66.249.87.104 - added 294 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 846 today)
66.249.93.99 - added 275 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 827 today)
66.249.93.104 - added 275 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 827 today)
216.239.59.99 - added 274 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 826 today)
216.239.59.104 - added 274 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 826 today)
64.233.161.99 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
64.233.161.104 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
64.233.167.99 - lost -81 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 471 today)
64.233.167.104 - lost -81 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 471 today)
64.233.171.99 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
64.233.171.104 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
64.233.179.99 - added 727 pages (showed 543 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
64.233.179.104 - added 727 pages (showed 543 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
64.233.185.99 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
64.233.185.104 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
64.233.187.99 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
64.233.187.104 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
64.233.189.104 - added 724 pages (showed 546 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
66.102.7.99 - added 724 pages (showed 546 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
66.102.7.104 - added 724 pages (showed 546 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
72.14.203.99 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
72.14.203.104 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
72.14.207.99 - lost -80 pages (showed 551 yesterday, showing 471 today)
72.14.207.104 - lost -80 pages (showed 551 yesterday, showing 471 today)
216.239.37.99 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
216.239.37.104 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
216.239.39.99 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
216.239.39.104 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
216.239.51.99 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
216.239.51.104 - added 718 pages (showed 552 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
216.239.53.99 - added 724 pages (showed 546 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
216.239.53.104 - added 724 pages (showed 546 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
216.239.57.99 - added 724 pages (showed 546 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
216.239.57.104 - added 724 pages (showed 546 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
216.239.63.99 - added 724 pages (showed 546 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
216.239.63.104 - added 724 pages (showed 546 yesterday, showing 1270 today)
Obviously, the DCs that concern me are:
64.233.167.99
64.233.167.104
72.14.207.99
72.14.207.104
as they are showing significant number of pages that were removed from the index. All other DCs are showing excellent, though random at times, increases in indexed pages.
Thanks for a great DCs Watching report DELUXE!
So whats happening today could be the "pumping" of additional data and testing of new filters and much much more ;-)
You may well be correct about the data pumping. Guess we will have to wait and see.
BTW. Also noticing increased Mozilla Googlebot activity all day so far ...
66.249.87.99 both showing a 44% decrease in indexed pages
66.249.87.104
64.233.167.99 both showing a 174% increase in indexed pages
64.233.167.104
All others showing either no, or minimal (less than 1% +¦-) movement.
Maybe this is starting to level out a bit, which would be nice :-)
I see some SERP's filtering in and out right now accross various DC's that actually look really good
Did they look anything like 64.233.187.104?
also, the way I tell that a dc is showing the same results as 64.233.187.104 is that the #1 website, which has been #1 for about 10yrs, has its title pulled from its DMOZ listing. All other dc's show the current Title that is in the code - which the site owner changes every now and then. My websites title is also pulled from its DMOZ listing in 64.233.187.104. My site has been in the top 10 in the 64.233.187.104 dc for the last 3 weeks - in all others it hanges around 80 (just out of sandbox after a year - or I guess its still in?)
"..My websites title is also pulled from its DMOZ listing in 64.233.187.104. My site has been in the top 10 in the 64.233.187.104 dc for the last 3 weeks - in all others it hanges around 80 (just out of sandbox after a year - or I guess its still in?)"
As to titles that 64.233.187.104 continue to pull from DMOZ, I wrote on 24th March 2006 a post:
Is It a Possible Bug on Some BigDaddy DCs?
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And few kind fellow members posted comments about the subject.
