Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
For my top target term there are still some differences between the Caffein sandbox and .com results. It does not affect me and looking at them dispassionately the Caffein results (subjectively) serve the user better. More of my significant real world competitors appear and less of the buy their way to the top jokers.
Cheers
Sid
[edited by: tedster at 5:52 am (utc) on Sep. 7, 2009]
anyone seeing anything caffeine like on 66.102.7.18 ?
Cheers
Sid
Cheers
Sid
You heard it here first, come on Matt, pop in for a comment, it'll be like the google dance days with GoogleGuy!
Caffeine is on 66.102.7.18
Yep, it's on all the 66.102.7.XX
It IS flickering on and off so those who don't see it may be need to check at different times.
if you look at [twitter.com...] you can see matt is responding to the asertion caffeine was on 216.239.59.103
66.102.7.18 is the caffeine i've seen
Matt Cutts tweeted this is NOT Caffeine:
[twitter.com...]That answer was reffering to 216.239.59.103
Matt Cutts tweeted this is NOT Caffeine:
[twitter.com...]lol you'd be amazed at how un-knowledgeable he is about the actual rollouts. (documented several times on this forum...and it's not his department)
He was vague, "don't believe".
If it TRULY isn't the sandbox datasets,
which is what it looks like,
AND it certainly isn't the current datasets.
THEN
it's the "holiday datasets"...Which would roll out rather quickly considering they would need to push those almost immediately.
Let the FUD commence. ;)
[seroundtable.com...]
"Update #1: Some are saying this data center has moved to 66.102.7.18."
It has been reported it will show off and on, IMO i have definitiely been looking at caffeine on 66.102.7.18 , but it ain't that different to normal old google anyway!
So he will continue to campaign for some accommodation for websmasters, but it's most likely going to a "best bet" rather than a sure thing.
Just wanted to say that I have been watching this and testing caffeine since the anouncement months back. At this point I can say with some confidense that what I saw prior to a few weeks back was indeed caffeine results in the normal search. It appears since shortly after the beggining of November Google pulled Caffeine back and is testing it randomly on a few data centers. So I agree with the conclusion that Caffeine was implemented and being served for well over a month previously as stated by others on this board at the time.
Just wanted to give my 2 cents. Currently I am seeing caffeine randomly after reloading a few times on [209.85.225.103...]
Then the Google PDF document goes further:
the strategy is to partition the processing of all documents by• randomly distributing documents into smaller shards
• having multiple server replicas responsible for handling each shard, and
• routing requests through a load balancer.
It seems to me that Caffeine is an intervention into the complexity of that process - and hopefully one that simplifies all those potential spots for data errors. I'm looking forward to the full roll-out.
Many thanks
BC
allow us to test the results for caffeine.co.uk results
Unless anyone knows better I think the best you can hope for is to compare Caffeine (if you can find the real thing) to google.com results and hope that the UK filter, when it is applied to Caffein has a similar effect to what is currently happening. In other words you want google.com and Caffeine results to be the same and then hope that some cleaver fellow in Googleplex doesn't decide to monkey with the UK filter between now and when Caffeine rolls out in the new year.
Cheers
Sid
gl=uk
[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 1:16 am (utc) on Nov. 29, 2009]
[edit reason] added link to SER [/edit]
...I think it's really risky to take a few threads and turn that into a "major Google update.".... So 209.85.225.103 does hit the Caffeine data center more often than other IP addresses, but it's always been the plan that Caffeine would roll out at one data center (no more data centers will get Caffeine until at least January)....
But I would avoid generalizing.... on a lot of the webmaster forums you can't tell what site they're talking about, so it's hard to do any debugging on what might have happened to individual sites there.
