Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I'm looking for opinions and definately not trying to sway anyone to my way of thinking.
My question is "What use, if any, is gained by endlessly watching and reporting the differences on Google DC's. I've tried my best for the last year and have got nothing from this practice and I'm actually starting to think that the people who do it ... must never sleep.
Give me your opinions on this activity, good or bad. Just think, you may save new SEO's a whole bundle of boring trouble.
All the Best
Col :-)
All the Best
Col ;-)
I really don't remember how many years ago I started working from home. In the beginning it was difficult, there were people coming and going, phones ringing, radio and television as a perpetual distraction, and yes, the inherently evil possibility of on-line gaming.
Eventually, I decided I needed to emulate my concept of what a conventional author would do. While I work, I don't answer phones, I don't engage in conversation, and I don't do anything that distracts from the task at hand. I usually figure I need two to three hours of totally dedicated time, maybe four hours more of time where I can be distracted, then I'm done for the day.
The roundabout point is that most distractions will not get you the results you want. Doesn't matter if it's DC watching, or television watching, unless you can directly relate it to your immediate goals, you shouldn't do it.
I can confirm that i don't hear from Tigger more than 20 or 30 times a day regarding his DC stats
Flibbertigibbet
ROFLMAO, Gets my vote for the post of the day!
Back to Working & Watching(but not the datacenters)
WW_Watcher
IMHO <<Flibbertigibbet>> was not pointed to datacenter watching, or analysis, and it was not related to this that I found humor.
Back to Watching Webmasterworld & Hoping for more insite into g1smd's find, and as to what it means. I am not in the league that g1smd is in, but I could speculate (and even hope) that it is the beginning of G using its history to possibly determine the originator of data, to determine who was the original owner of scraped content. But I could be dreaming.
WW_Watcher
Edited to add, I cannot think of why else they would be keeping the old data. It is not really logical to return a page as search results, when the keyword(s) queried are not in the page, but only in the supplemental page's cache. It is beyond me, I leave it to the wiz kids of WW to figure it out, I will go back to lurking.
Today the Data Centers Watch thread spawned a Home Page item[...]
Counterpoint, by Brett in said thread [webmasterworld.com]:
This was a pretty important find by g1smd and very worthy of it's own thread.
I must admit that I was somewhat disappointed to find something that sounds quite interesting (to myself) to be a smallish blip in the DC watching threads. As I post this, the aforementioned thread has 31 posts; only 7 seem to be relevant to the Supplemental issue, the rest being DC watching. I've seen better signal/noise ratios...
[...] saying something relevant [...]
2 cups of warm delicious Danish Brand Cappuccino!
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I've seen better signal/noise ratios...
I hear you on that, but a lot of SEO does involve pouring over reams of relatively noisy data until that magic moment when a previously unnoticed pattern jumps out of the picture.
Just wondering and an interim conclusion ;-)
Out of a community of maybe 100.000 members, only 13 members expressed that Google Datacenters Watching is a waste of time.
You 13 win...
Google Datacenters Watchers loose..
"Congrats" ;-)
Oscar Wilde
In my case, it was nice over the course of a month or two spotting the effect of some small changes I made and if they impacted on the site positively or nagatively.
I also find the DC watching threads interesting, thanks to the regular posters, you know who you are! Yes they are sometimes a little off base, but like it or not it gives a good indicator major changes, common problems people are having and also plenty of speculation as to where things might be heading.
It all about keeping it in perspective with all the chopping and changing going. Trick is not to get too addicted to DC watching ;-)
I hope the thread does not reappear - and this one can die a greaceful death also:)
"I hope the thread does not reappear ...."
Just in case you have any observations on Google Datacenters, you wish to share:
Data Center Watch 2006 May 05
[webmasterworld.com...]
In those long and boring threads on DCs you occasionally see a blinding flash of insight which is useful. In particular the identification of test DCs and evaluation of what the chimps are playing with.
FWIW I have a hypothesis on the direction that I expect the Google algorithm to take in the next few months and years. Watching DCs tests this hypothesis and provides an early indication of movement resulting in a mixture of false hope and incredulity at the stupidity of some of the guys with their fingers on the algo knobs at Googleplex.
Watching DCs to try and find the one that suits your agenda in the vain hope that it will propogate is about as much use as collecting belly button lint, but some folks do both (at the same time) ;)
Sid
