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A restart of Brandy?
Also, from your comments are we correct to assume that Brandy doesn't necessarily contain the most up to date data, especially in terms of backlinks recognition?
Maybe there's a deeper meaning in that word, but I took it to mean a reboot.
Santa Clara California x=7
66.102.x.98
66.102.x.99
66.102.x.102
66.102.x.104
66.102.x.105
Dublin x=9
66.102.x.99
66.102.x.104
Dublin xx=59
216.239.xx.98
216.239.xx.99
216.239.xx.102
216.239.xx.103
216.239.xx.104
216.239.xx.105
www for Germany and UK Pings mostly to 66.102.xx.104
www2 pings from me as 216.239.xx.104 as does www3 xx=57 Which is Palo Alto
Anyone else notice totally different results coming up?
Have not seen results like this before.
I've also lost a lot of SERPS on most of my prime keywords.
I just want to know if Google intends to continue rotating data centers and therefore serving up entirely different SERPS.
I sure hope not because surfers who find something at 1:00 in the afternoon in the first position are highly likely to come back at 2:00 or 3:00 or even the next day, type in the same search term in order to take another look before they buy.
People are very lazy about bookmarking pages when they find something they like. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen peculiar or easily identified search strings in my logs which can all be attributed to the same person coming back several times before they contact us or buy.
If Google intends to serve up different results on a random basis, surfers will get frustrated and walk. My fear is that these rotating results may be intentional and a permanent fixture.
If that's the case, Yahoo will reap the rewards of getting to know Google intimately over the past couple of years. I sincerely hope I am wrong but I have this horrible, gut feeling. :(
I think we need to remain patient, also I think 2004 will begin to rattle the weak at heart. With Yahoo onto the new red hot sector of the billion dollar industry of "The Search" we need to understand that Yahoo, Google and the rest are now at war!
Let the games begin!
"If you are going through hell, keep going"
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Whatever they're doin' in the 66 range looks pretty dreadful. Weird combo of some much spammier sites up high again... plus more of the old Florida/Austin results.
Sort of the worst of both worlds. Just when it seemed that they were working things out over there. Perhaps this is really just a pot that bubbled over.
Who would hav thought that it possible to add more spam *and* more Florida back in at the same time? Not me, but geez, there it is.
A doorways site has been pushed out from the number 1 spot it held since a long, long time ago.
I noticed something else.
Another site that had a great ranking only because its owner had a web site factory and therefore had access to lot of links, it's gone from the Top 10!
Yes, Google make my day!
[edited by: zafile at 10:01 pm (utc) on Feb. 20, 2004]
What in God's name is that? Is this supposed to be a spam datacenter? Obviously these aren't relevant to anything.
It's just weird how people can dig up these datacneters and find some psycho-lunacy sandbox that the public should never see.
I came to that conclusion by looking at some serps on 66.102.7.98. I looked there for one of my site's keywords and the cache of one my site's pages in the serps is dated 23 January. I update my content every couple of days, and the date of that update appears on every page.
Here in Australia the www results for my subject area are not like that at all; they are up to date Brandy style results.
"66.102.7.98"What in God's name is that? Is this supposed to be a spam datacenter? Obviously these aren't relevant to anything.
It's just weird how people can dig up these datacneters and find some psycho-lunacy sandbox that the public should never see.
Meanwhile, not *so* funny, as some folks seem to be seeing this live. Scary. What are they doing over there?!
Actually, I have a theory. I have come to the conclusion that either Y! or M$N succeeded in getting a high level engineer employed at the 'Plex - could even be one of those sleepers like the Ruskies used to place in the US for years, disguised as normal people!
Then one day, *bang* everything starts going wrong and no one knows what happened until months or years later, when it's too late.
66.102.7.99 is now showing very good results! LOL. This is too insane.
100% different than what I saw a few minutes ago.
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I was looking at the wrong datacenter, but also 66.102.7.98 is showing good results now too.
Perhaps the 66 datacenters are doing the meltdown right now that some of saw on www www2 and www3 a couple days ago.
Watch and be amazed...
[edited by: steveb at 10:44 pm (utc) on Feb. 20, 2004]
Those results seem to me like Brandy with some subtle filters for doorways, hidden links and full-hidden text.
old pre-Brandy results
Anyone remember what happned with Florida?
Things were cooking for a while, then all the sudden at just one dc these bizarre results start appearing, unlike anything anyone ever saw. Few even took notice. Next day, hellllllllloooooooo Florida.
You just never know, not any more.
Top ten results changing every fifteen seconds to 100% different results.
No good can come from this.
I cant find anything, now I will try temoa and then Altavista.
Googleguy I have never asked/talked with you but if your at Google PLEASE do something.
zeus
I preferred it when google did monthly updates back in the past, it seems to me that the datacenters are never stable anymore.
eradict updates time after time that just annoy me really.
I have to stop relying on google and move to other search engines.
The only good news is that yahoo have decide to dump google, some hope with them.
