Alternating SERPS

Anyone else seeing this?

[webdude]

I have seen it bantered about that the G may be alternating results to keep the SEOs off track on trying to pin-point the new algo.

Well for the past several weeks, the results for my 2 word money phrase have been really wierd and was wondering if anyone else is seeing the same. Every day I come into work and the first thing I do is check the SERPS to see where we are today and every day I get a different result. Today, I am #15. Yesterday, I was #5. last week on any given day the returns showed anywhere from #1 to #20. It seem to be fluctuating all the time.

Now maybe Austin is not done yet, and that is the reason. But I believe these results are being alternated intentionally. This would give the G the upper hand in keeping the new algo/filter from being figured out.

Any Thoughts?

[bwelford]

I'm still seeing the same behaviour I have been seeing for the last 48 hours here in Canada. 64 and www.google.com are sometimes aligned but usually different as they have been all this morning.

There is one datacenter that has been consistently different for a number of days. That's the old www-in although the name is not currently working. The IP for that is [216.239.53.104...]

[finer9]

Yah, that one is definitely different. I did see it live for a very short time though.

I think they run the data through a click test of some sort for short periods of time.

[webdude]

Sid,

Still don't know what is going on. I am pretty much at #1 for all datacenters (I may be missing some), yet sometime in the morning (later everyday US Central Time), the site now pops to #5. At least it is better the #14, which was happening last week.

Somebody have a complete list of data centers handy? Preferably by ip?

Thanks