which datacenter is this?

very strange behaviour after update

[muesli]

i recently launched a new site and it was very interesting to see it appearing for the first time in the index, and the according google-dance behaviour. now - as the update has settled - all datacenters (the www's and google.at) find 26 of its pages and 21 links to it.

now the strange thing is:
i have a line in my hosts-file ("216.239.37.100 g") that makes google show up whenever i type "g" into my location bar. when i do this and i search for my new site a totally different search result is shown, one similar to what was shown during the dance: it says "results 1-3 from about 5" (where are the other two?) and shows 3 links to my site and none of its pages. when i type the IP-address itself instead of "g" it shows the 26 pages plus the 21 links.

i used "uniquewidget" as search keyword in all cases, the site being called uniquewidget.com.

does anyone have an explanation for this strange behaviour?
muesli

ps. the toolbar shows no PR yet for my new site, i guess this takes one cycle more?

[muesli]

wow, update:

the hosts-file shortcut now finds 71 pages with "uniquewidget" while www, www2 and www3 still find 67 pages. so there is still some dance?

anway, i have two questions:

- which datacenter is this? it's not www, www2 nor www3 as they show a different result.

- how is it possible that my hosts-file-shortcut that goes to IP xy shows a different result than when i put in the IP xy directly into the location bar? <added>the only explanation i have is cloaking. but cloaking for "g"..??

www.uniquewidget.com is temporily in my profile, in case somebody want to try. (i have the impression you folks aren't believing me;-) </added>

muesli

[muesli]

update:

now again i find only one result ("1 - 1 of about 5") via my hosts-file-shortcut while all other addresses (including the IP-address) still show the usual 67.

some moments later a refresh showed 81 (wow, highscore). i'm glad i did a screenshot, see my profile for it.

i guess the ever growing number on this strange backdoor is a hint for the "google now updates constantly" theory. unfortunately my servers logfiles are turned off so i cannot see when the newly added pages were crawled. google's timestamp shows yesterday's date (and my pages haven't got PR yet).

<added>
i found one more difference:
i do a search on "blue widgets". the results hardly vary but a time stamp is shown for about 1/3 of the pages via my hosts-file-shortcut. the normal URLs show the same, just without timestamp.
and:
when i enter the IP-address directly into the location-bar it jumps to "www.google.com". some hours before it didn't, see above.
</added>

muesli

ps. i feel a little strange being the lonely ranger in this thread.. anyway, i think it is a relevant find (couldn't find any old thread on the subject).

[muesli]

hi,

end of the article (which it is more than a thread;-) :

all datacenters seem to be in sync now and show 81 matches. time stamp is shown for all new pages on all www's, too.

thank you for your patience :-)

muesli

[rfgdxm1]

Nope, they aren't all in sync. I checked with one of those Google-dance machine sites on my main keyword. One of the datacenters has my site higher than the other 4. When it comes to "everflux", these changes seem to take a while to propagate.