Google Data Centers Watch 2006-04-15

[catch2948]

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For those of you who may be seeing strange results on the following DCs:

72.14.207.99
72.14.207.104

Do a site:mydomain.com check for your site & check the pages that are returned.

Do the serp titles & descriptions returned look close to being identical (eg. site-wide title and description tags maybe)?

I have an idea brewing :-)

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[reseller]

Blade3

"Hi Reseller,

FYI, the SERPs of www.google.sk is different from the other DCs."

Thanks. I know, but can't figure which IP that www.google.sk is hitting.

"I had also checked these two DCs which show the same number of Search Results similar to www.google.sk
66.102.7.99
66.102.7.104"

Maybe same number, but I see different serps ;-)

"My local IP is 72.14.203.104 "

WOW..lucky you. And hopefully you like what you see.

[Simsi]

Still seing the same dubious SERPS on the test DCs in my sector as with the normal SERPS.

Looking at the results, its interesting that the spammy ones seem to all be on very popular (or well known at least) domains outside the sector - myspace, come.to etc. I'm wondering if what is happening here, is that G! have gone right back to basics, using tld popularity, IBLs/OBLs across the entire domain and domain-based age information as the basis for the results. Then gradually rebuild SERPS top-down, introducing old and new filters one by one to ascertain the effect each has.

Almost like a slow but total rebuild of the algos. A "Google Regenesis" if you like.

A pure guess. But if so, then in actual fact, the "basic" high-level algos are actually not too bad - as a starting point of course. In the Top 10, I see three outright Spam, 4 undeserving of high placement, but relevant to the sector, and 3 arguably deserving and relevant.

Simsi

[jam2005]

>>>I still see, as to this morning, the "improved" serps on both DCs

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

I see old titles and descriptions in these SERPS that were changed last year.

[reseller]

jam2005

What do you see when run command

site:www.yoursite.com

new or old titles and descriptions?

and whats the date of your homepage cache?

Thanks

[reseller]

Simsi

"Looking at the results, its interesting that the spammy ones seem to all be on very popular (or well known at least) domains outside the sector - myspace, come.to etc. "

did you see that on:

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

Thanks.

[Simsi]

Simsi
"Looking at the results, its interesting that the spammy ones seem to all be on very popular (or well known at least) domains outside the sector - myspace, come.to etc. "

did you see that on:

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

Thanks.

Hi Reseller.

Yes on both those DC's...still there now too I am afraid. Both are also identical to the "real" SERPS on the .com that I see. I am in a well-spammy sector mind, but even so, these are a lot worse than they have been up to this recent change.

Cheers

Simsi

[reseller]

Simsi

"Hi Reseller.

Yes on both those DC's...still there now too I am afraid. Both are also identical to the "real" SERPS on the .com that I see. I am in a well-spammy sector mind, but even so, these are a lot worse than they have been up to this recent change."

That doesn't sound good at all (:(

Lets wait the next 24 hours and see. Pls keep us posted.

[RichTC]

A VERY Popular search request viewing UK data centre shows a single page site "comming soon" with four outbound links on it (which has been like this for over 7 mths) - in position 3 out of 236 million results.

Wow - its taken Google 8 years to get to this? Amazing!

IMO the honeymoon is over for Google

[MLHmptn]

Okay, either I'm going nuts and seeing things or Google is playing tricks on me. I am now seeing SERP's that are not on any of the datacenters. I try to to check the same DC on McDar's and it's showing me completely different results. There is a set of SERP's that is floating in and out on my default google.com's(72.14.203.104 & 72.14.207.104). It is showing some sites that have been released from the sandbox. I have done a screen capture to prove my point if anyone cares to ask for them.

[lazycat]

No you're not crazy, I see those SERPS too and they're nothing like those shown on any of the datacenters pulled up by Mcdar. For my main keyterm I rank between 3 and 7 on those whilst I'm 41st on the results which are currently showing.

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