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That is to say that if I ping www.google.nl 5 different times I get any of the 5 listed above. Seems to be a random rotation. This holds true for be,de,fr,ch,at, and www. (I did not go any further.)
These IPs are all showing the "new" results. All but 216.239.37.104 traditionally have been "international" servers. IP 216.239.37.104 used to be the cache server for www-va.google.com. It is also showing the "worst-new" results IMHO:)
I have just gone through all of the other "US" servers (that I know of)and they are mostly stable at this time and showing familiar results.
What is real unusual is WWW pulling in results from the traditionally "international" servers as it is doing today.
If that was the case I would have seen a change in the amount of visitors Google and partners are sending me for a couple of sites.
I'm in the UK and have not seen these results once yet on www....
Perhaps it is testing - but whenever I have assumed testing before it always went live. :(
Oh well I am glad I at least spread the risk and not all sites will be damaged if this algo does go live.
So far my response is "yawn".
Some of my results are up, some are down. Saturday is a bad day for judging traffic results.
I tried a bunch of searches that I am interested in.
Non-commercial info - generally good.
Specific item shopping - very good.
Real estate - slightly better than post florida, but still a bit of a mess.
Travel, commercial - looks like directories still rule.
Travel, general - very good. Informational sites rule, with some good commercial sites in there.
Travel, informational - surprisingly not quite as good as the general travel results. I got a couple of spammy affiliate pages on searches for "cityname museum"
Conclusion - most users aren't going to notice any more than they noticed Florida.
From the results they are serving I would guess that the CTR will skyrocket.
Anyone else seeing this show up on "their" www yet?
My logs show the new results, but i don't see them when going to www. From where i sit this is definately the new index.
As far as I am concerned I have been doing numerous tests in the last week and have seen changes on the regular www. It has been cycling between about 5 data centers, as far as I can tell, but these Austin results I have only seen today.
To me Austin is new, and I see it across AOL and it is now coming into the main www every once in a while.
[216.239.33.99...]
[216.239.37.99...]
(don't know if it's significant though)
Thanks claus - I can finally see some difference.
Give me an ip where I can see these rumored changes?
I would like to see the IP too, so far I have not seen any changes on the main www, www2 or www3.
Until we see changes on the above 3 www I would take it all with a pinch of salt even if results appear on AOL and Netscape.
(I'm in the American Midwest, if that's of any relevance.)
I do [google.com...] without the www
which produces new results
however they are far different
to those new results reporting from [216.239.37.99...]
Plus [google.com...] is different to the old results.
When I ping [google.com...] i get the IP address 216.239.37.99 but what is strange is the results are different for when I go to [216.239.37.99...]
Hope you understand what I mean.
The confusion is with in the DNS!
Brett I think we are looking at the first stages of an update but its far too early for anyone to start judging the quality of the results.
I can't recall Google ever doing something like this, and then revert back. What I am questioning is whether what I see now is what the new index will be, or if this update still isn't fully cooked? As in perhaps other algo factors have yet to be tossed in.
every time I go to [google.com...] it forwards me to an IP/DNS of #http://www.google.com those results are different to the ones when going direct to [google.com...]
Both of the top two results are different to the DC 216.239.37.99
Confused!
ADDED
Checking again and the results have gone back to normal!
I am checking these in Europe.
Me either. Play around for a couple of hours on some of the aforemention IPs and you will surely see the *making of a new result-set for certain searches*.
Is all the data pulled in? Are all the filters applied? Is the soup ready to taste? The same questions we always ask.
The main differences we are seeing are in fact similarities to Florida, not so much from a semantics standpoint as an athoritative standpoint for certain result sets.
And again this logic is unevenly applied as there is clearly a bias for some phrases to trigger a result set that does not reward traditional *on-page SEO tactics*
