Is the update over?

[matuloo]

I am seeing the same results for yahoo backlinks on all 3 servers, is it over already?

[coconutz]

Not quite. www-in.google.com hasn't been updated yet, it's still showing the old results.

[matuloo]

www-in.google.com

what kind of url is that, I have never seen that one, what is it used for, or is it some national version?

[coconutz]

One of Google's data centers:

216.239.33.100 www-ex.google.com
216.239.35.100 www-sj.google.com
216.239.37.100 www-va.google.com
216.239.39.100 www-dc.google.com
216.239.51.100 www-ab.google.com
216.239.53.100 www-in.google.com
216.239.55.100 www-zu.google.com
216.239.57.100 www-cw.google.com

[speda1]

www, www1 and www2 are not servers. Google load balances via dns, so when you search on www.google.com you get results from one of the above data centers (each of which has multiple servers).

[matuloo]

speda1 : yes I know www1 - 3 are not "servers", I just got used to name those that way over time :) when I was checking there for yahoo backlinks.

[netguy]

According to the NY Times article that Brett showed us, now a total of 57,000 servers between the data centers!

[webmasterworld.com...]

[pendanticist]

Hey, coconutz.

Is there a place that describes how all those servers play into the crawl? Or that explains (tutorially) how to follow along with updates...for the real novice?

I've looked around but, hey, ain't sure what I'm looking for.

:o

Ex: I see they made the 3x3 a 4x4.

I have no idea what that's about...other than when all four say the same thing then everflux or the update is over.

Thanks.

Pendanticist.

[coconutz]

We were asked to refrain from dropping this url in the past, so check your sticky mail.
:)

[pendanticist]

Got it. Thank You.

Pendanticist.

[pixel_juice]

If it had 'factory' in it someone, I just stickied the same url :)

[pendanticist]

Yeah, but the other one was a good pointer too. <Brought me right back to this thread....LOL!>

Thank You.

Pendanticist.

[toddb]

not sure when we should see a change in PR butmine went from 6 to 5 last night. I noticed it fluctualting last evening and now it has officially dropped. Seems like an odd time for that to happen.

[coconutz]

>>Seems like an odd time for that to happen.

From what I've read here in the past regarding PR, it seems that this is usually adjusted near the end of an update. I'm seeing our PR fluctuate as well. Too bad it's downward.

I wonder if we'll start seeing an increase in the number of link requests because of this? Will this also make the higher PR links [webmasterworld.com] more valuable?

[toddb]

i think it is part of that over all drop we are all seeing I did redo a bunch of pages just one step down that probaly was poor timing in hindsight. But all of my competitors look to have done the same thing.

[jady]

Looks just about done.. Go to bed and in the morning it should be settled... :)