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datacenters?

[Bob_Brewski]

I was looking at some inbound links for a certain page and saw some strange looking Google inbound links for some random page:

www-ab.google.com
www-ex.google.com
www-in.google.com

What do they mean? One page I saw had 4 inbound links and 3 of them were these from Google... Does this look strange to anyone?

[Stefan]

Hey Bob

They're URL's for particular Google datacentres. Are you seeing them listed as backlinks for certain pages?

[plasma]

Most likely someone searched using these particular datacenters.
In the SERPs he/she/it then clicked on your site.
That will be logged as the referer in your logs.

They are not inbound links.

[athinktank]

I concur with plasma. Those entries in your logs are mostlikely your competition checking up on you. They are doing a key word search on those data centers to see how they are fairing. Then clicking though to see your site; checking you out.

[Stefan]

My first thought was that he'd used a Googledan*e tool on his site, clicked in on some of them, then spotted it in the logs... just wanted to get the "inbound links" thing out of the way.

[kamikaze Optimizer]

On that same note, anyone want to throw in thier 2 cents on what is going on with IN SERPs right now?

Looks very interesting to me, but I wonder if it is good stuff coming in or bad stuff that will go out...

Anyone? Anyone?

[Duke_of_Url]

re: datacentres, is there a list anywhere of all those found so far? I've read about -dc of late, and a few others, but I'd be interested in reminding myself of the full set!

ta
DoU

[tigger]

I don't know if this up to date

www-ab.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.51.100
www-cw.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.57.100
www-dc.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.39.100
www-ex.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.33.100
www-fi.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.41.100
www-gv.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.59.100
www-in.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.53.100
www-kr.google.com. 60 IN A 66.102.11.100
www-mc.google.com. 59 IN A 66.102.7.100
www-sj.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.35.100
www-va.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.37.100
www-zu.google.com. 60 IN A 216.239.55.100

[Duke_of_Url]

cool, thanks for that

DoU

[plasma]

for i in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do for j in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do dig www-$i$j.google.com; done ¦grep www- ¦egrep -v "^;"; done

[dazz]

What?

[tigger]

ok someone been drinking too much coffee round here that means nothing to me

[finer9]

He was showing you the UNIX command line to produce all the Google datacenters (by checking all letters a-z)

[g1smd]

... and to do the same thing in Windows probably needs a team of programmers to write the software, taking ages, and a several MB download file as the result

[synergy]

On that same note, anyone want to throw in thier 2 cents on what is going on with IN SERPs right now?
Looks very interesting to me, but I wonder if it is good stuff coming in or bad stuff that will go out...

Anyone? Anyone?

I don't know, but it's showing an updated cache of my site, AND I'm #1 for my target keyword (#3 on every other datacenter).

EDIT: Oops, looks like www-in reverted back to same results as the other datacenters.

[athinktank]

for %X in (a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) do for %Y in (a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) do nslookup www-%X%Y.google.com >> allgoogle.txt

this is for windoz. make sure it's all on one line. It will give an exaustive list that you will have to manually look for the google entries. I dont know of a command like grep for dos. Maybe someone can sticky me with the answer if there is one.

Now, for you non-*nix people. Go and get yourself some Cygwin. It puts a bash shell on your windoz box. then you can run plasma's command.

[g1smd]

Doesn't work in a DOS prompt, or as a batch file; nor in the run window.

What am I missing?

[athinktank]

is it all on one line? must not have any returns in the command.

do you get an error message?

at this point im going to envoke the clasic developer cliche! *works on my box* =)

[finer9]

There is a grep.exe or grep.com available for DOS - I used to have it. I think you can probably find it with the help of Google.

[Powdork]

I'm pretty sure Tigger's list has all the current ones but it also includes -sj, which seems to have gone the way of the -do-do.
That would be a good one, by the way, www-do-do.google.com