BigDaddy is the Google Test Datacenter with new Technology

[forums]

on Matt Cutts Blog he officially states the new direction Google will be going in with the lauch of the BigDaddy Test Datacenter.

They also ask for feedback to be sent to Google about the Overall Quaility.

[fryman]

jeez, couldn't you post a link to it??

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy/

[Dominic]

Originally Posted by Matt Cutts

Q: What’s new and different in Bigdaddy?
A: It has some new infrastructure, not just better algorithms or different data. Most of the changes are under the hood, enough so that an average user might not even notice any difference in this iteration.

It's only live at http://64.233.179.104 and http://66.249.93.104 at the moment, when it's done in the next two months it will be rolled out for all datacentres.

[fryman]

All my sites have way more indexed pages there...

[lorien1973]

I figure there is no point in getting excited till its more fully developed. I don't see major changes from the live center to this one *shrugs*

[fryman]

There is no change in serps... but I would like to get the indexed pages rolled out

[MattEvers]

Originally Posted by fryman

There is no change in serps... but I would like to get the indexed pages rolled out

I agree...it would help with coop and linkvault.

[NetMidWest]

I’m most interested in hearing feedback about canonicalization, redirects, duplicate urls, www vs. non-www, and similar issues. Before you send in a report, please read my previous posts on url canonicalization, the inurl operator, and 302 redirects.

Seems that Google is finally taking on 302 redirect hijacking.
While I am happy to see this, they waited way too long... allowed too much damage.
The post on 302 redirects is interesting, most I have seen had a 'worse' url than the hijacked domain.
Perhaps this is the change, to simply show the 'better looking' url... it would stop alot of them.

[energizer]

Guys,

I notice that my website ranks higher on the bigdaddy test servers.

Here's a question I have for you all - assuming that these are the results that will roll out, do you think the rankings could change significantly in the next month or two on those servers and if so what could cause this? Older links getting out of the link age filter and counting, as time goes on?

Since one of my sites is #5 on the test servers, I am trying to in part figure out if I can get it to #1 just before the servers go live

Energizer

[Netizen]

Matt Cutts said

the Bigdaddy data centers can be (I believe) in the regular rotation. So at times we may send part of www.google.com traffic to those data centers.

I saw a 30% increase in referrals from Google today and I rank much better on the Bigdaddy DCs. Perhaps they really are live at times!

[Nathan Malone]

Update from Matt Cutts: To view the "Big Daddy" results, go to 66.249.93.104. That is the more reliable datacenter.

[lbordea]

Originally Posted by Netizen

Matt Cutts said


I saw a 30% increase in referrals from Google today and I rank much better on the Bigdaddy DCs. Perhaps they really are live at times!

i have noticed that also for my site. it is great!!!!!!!!

[mizt]

Saw this post over at sitepoint today and after checking some site: commands im a little worried as far as my coop weight goes. Digital point only had about half of the indexed pages it currently has.

Matt Cutt’s, Google’s infamous Blogger, has written about “bigdaddy“, Google’s new datacenter which will become the default in the next 1-2 months:

Q: What’s new and different in Bigdaddy?
A: It has some new infrastructure, not just better algorithms or different data. Most of the changes are under the hood, enough so that an average user might not even notice any difference in this iteration.

At the moment, Google is requesting feedback on the quality of search results at “bigdaddy”. Specifically, they want feedback about canonicalization, redirects, duplicate urls, www vs. non-www, spam and similar issues.

Check out 66.249.93.104 to preview how your Website might rank in Google in the near future.
# Use this form to report spam and put in “bigdaddy” in the additional details section
# If you have other feedback, click on the “Dissatisfied? Help us improve” link on the search results page and use the keyword “bigdaddy” in your feedback so that your comments go to the right people.

Are you guys checking your serps over here to see what the future might hold for you?

[fryman]

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=48578

[mizt]

I feel really stupid as I looked for a post before posting. I will write 1000x

I will search before posting ..

Thanks fryman

[Nathan Malone]

Is anyone else noticing that static links might be more valuable on the new datacenter? There was talk about the new bot having different indexing characteristics, and that might be one of them.

[Las Vegas Homes]

There was talk about the new bot having different indexing characteristics, and that might be one of them.

I dont know about the rest of you but the new googlebot is ripping my bandwidth all to hell. Since the 1st of Jan this bot has eaten up almost 200MB of bandwidth. If it keeps going at this rate Google alone could use 1GB of bandwidth. The nice thing about though is that we are getting new pages indexed within 24 hours of creating them on the test datacenter.

I have noticed something else about the test DCs they do seem to roll back data at certain times. I found something else yesterday that was interesting. On a search I did it showed the cache date on Jan 4th but when I clicked cache it showed Dec 28th. Go Figure.

[sGroup]

If they are combining pages - then does that mean that PR will be more focused to less pages? hmmm... more juice from our IBL's?