datacentre's

a list fo all the Google datacentresa and there addresses

[humpingdan]

is it possible that we could start a list fo all the seperate location that you can search google from including countires?

for instance im fairly new to this but - if i search for widget on www.google.com i get nothing but search for widget on www2.google.com and i get my result.

aaprreciated!

[lazerzubb]

1. www-fi.google.com
2. www-dc.google.com
3. www-va.google.com
4. www-ab.google.com
5. www-ex.google.com
6. www-cw.google.com
7. www-in.google.com

Just ping them to see their IP's.

[g1smd]

8. www-zu.google.com
9. www-sj.google.com

a. www-fi2.google.com
b. www-dc2.google.com
c. www-va2.google.com
d. www-ab2.google.com
e. www-ex2.google.com
f. www-cw2.google.com
g. www-in2.google.com
h. www-zu2.google.com
i. www-sj2.google.com

[humpingdan]

how do i 'ping' these data centres, what is Pinging? and what use is it too me? i know that different data is stored on different data centres but what use is that to me?

what can i do with this information?

[g1smd]

At the DOS prompt:

> ping www.google.com

Tells you the IP address of the server responding.

Or look for software like pingplotter for Windows.

[humpingdan]

yeah but wot can i do with this?

[beebware]

You could also use "nslookup www.google.com" from the Windows/DOS command line to get the IP address of that datacentre: it'll use slightly less bandwidth than pinging (as you'll just be querying a nameserver instead of querying a nameserver and then sending out pings and waiting for the pongs to come back)

>> yeah but wot can i do with this? <<

Hello. You're new here aren't you? ;) Basically, if you look at the past posts on this forum, you'll find out that by checking other datacentres you can *sometimes* get an idea of what a forthcoming data rollout is going to look like: and with the IP address you can also work a bit of magic with the Windows hosts file (in /windows/system32/drivers/etc/ ) to get the Toolbar to query other datacentres of PR values etc etc.

[a1call]

Hi,
how about:
10. toolbarqueries.google.com
and for google in different countries and languages check:
[google.com...]