Owlcroft
Apr 10th 2004, 2:40 pm
The interesting tool at McDar that shows the results from several Google data centers for the same search terms at the same moment gives results that puzzle me.
There are seven centers shown. For a given search-term set, one of my sites shows these placement results: 39 - 25 - 38 - 38 - 39 - 39 - 39. While I would be (reluctantly) willing to write off that 25 as just a chance variation, the fact is that when I call an actual search, that is the result I get a majority of the time, perhaps (I haven't been counting) a large majority. Moreover, this is a fairly steady and persistent difference: it has been that way for at least days, and I reckon from memory, weeks, meaning across the recent Google juggling, so it is not just the blind chance of a given moment.
Some questions, then:
1. Are the centers geographic? That is, do I see a given center more often because of where I am?
2. Are the centers more or less equally served, or do I perhaps see one more often because it carries a much higher load than some others?
3. Why the sharp difference at one center compared to another?
There are seven centers shown. For a given search-term set, one of my sites shows these placement results: 39 - 25 - 38 - 38 - 39 - 39 - 39. While I would be (reluctantly) willing to write off that 25 as just a chance variation, the fact is that when I call an actual search, that is the result I get a majority of the time, perhaps (I haven't been counting) a large majority. Moreover, this is a fairly steady and persistent difference: it has been that way for at least days, and I reckon from memory, weeks, meaning across the recent Google juggling, so it is not just the blind chance of a given moment.
Some questions, then:
1. Are the centers geographic? That is, do I see a given center more often because of where I am?
2. Are the centers more or less equally served, or do I perhaps see one more often because it carries a much higher load than some others?
3. Why the sharp difference at one center compared to another?