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Details on Major Google Algorithm Update (w/ test IPs)

directmag.com — Google's upcoming algorithm update will change things so much they have dubbed it "BigDaddy." The update is slated for mid-February or early March and will fix many of the current issues with Google's search results. Try these IPs to test out the new system pre-release: 66.249.93.104 and 64.233.179.104 - is your site still in the top results?

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  • crtrue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5For the more paranoid out there, the WHOIS on the IP addresses are good.


    OrgName: Google Inc.
    OrgID: GOGL
    Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
    City: Mountain View
    StateProv: CA
    PostalCode: 94043
    Country: US

    NetRange: 66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255
    CIDR: 66.249.64.0/19
    NetName: GOOGLE
    NetHandle: NET-66-249-64-0-1
    Parent: NET-66-0-0-0-0
    NetType: Direct Allocation
    NameServer: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
    NameServer: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
    Comment:
    RegDate: 2004-03-05
    Updated: 2004-11-10

    OrgTechHandle: ZG39-ARIN
    OrgTechName: Google Inc.
    OrgTechPhone: +1-650-318-0200
    OrgTechEmail: arin-contact@google.com

    # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2006-01-24 19:10
    # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
  • burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow. The results seem a ton more relevant on the whole. This is cool.
  • jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://66.249.93.104/
    http://64.233.179.104/

    captcha cache!
  • mocheeze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like this one better too. Damn, this seems faster than normal Google too. :)
  • KillerJ59J, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now, if I search my name my personal site is second, huge improvement. Glad Google is still working on what got it famous in the first place and keeps making it even better. :)
  • netsurferbg, on 04/03/2008, -0/+0Old article but quite interesting, a site I own has a better serp on those dc's - http://avto-borsa.com
  • Wilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like :D
  • cheesetoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Big Daddy" seems fitting
  • TShafer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very cool. My sites are getting bumped up from 2nd or 3rd page obscurity to front page on most relevant queries now.
  • skytimelapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mine is up too- I like it... how is this not on the first page of webmasterworld?
  • krbrowning, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, the results are so much more on target now, acronyms and city names link up with the proper sites instead of random forums.
  • grantmiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0kenwestin and ogletree are both right about this being old news: jonhenshaw did break this story about 3 weeks ago on digg with the Matt Cutts submission http://digg.com/technology/Matt_Cutts_Reveals_Google_s_Next_Generation_Search but I felt that the digg community would be well served if this "news" made it to the homepage.
  • willclarke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"miserable failure" also brings up michael moore as the second result, another big improvement
  • lmarso, on 04/16/2009, -0/+0"... Google has also begun using a search crawler built on a Mozilla browser."

    Um, OK.

    One word: GPL.

    Please, sir, may we have the code?
  • MrMickMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0#1 result for 5 of our bestselling products (was somewhere between 3 to 12). Time to order more inventory!
  • MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It hardly effected my results, Im first anyways on a normal search :p
  • brandonb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I does seem faster though.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No change for me... one site I go to though went down!
  • aoeuhtns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0searching for big daddy finds this http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp

    I'm amazed :D
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is great... my site is now second in results :D
  • CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0still incredibly wrong with regard to the true number of pages of a given site, but who's counting.
  • kkaabboomm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i did a cursory search for "mario kart emblems" w/o the quotes...

    just judging from that one search result alone (i know, i shouldn't) the results are much better. good job google!
  • mikeroq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow my name on google gets like 900 or so hits (mikeroq)
    my name on the new thing gets over 12000 (mikeroq)
  • NiX0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"is your site still in the top results?"
    my site ranks even better :)
    w00t!
  • Cambo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like the new update :) more accurate results
  • barbobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe this one will stop all the seo's from crapping up the search results
  • duffield, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0New: Results 1 - 10 of about 36,800,000 for llama [definition]. (0.05 seconds)
    Current: Results 1 - 10 of about 33,700,000 for llama [definition]. (0.05 seconds)

    They're about the same in speed, but are they searching the same set of data?
  • tidejwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0so, my work doesn't have google blocked on those IP addresses (they blocked the main google IP). . . this is GREAT NEWS! I can SEARCH AGAIN! :)
  • dmensionz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Matt Cutts is from Google, Not Yahoo!!!
  • grahamenglish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes! "Moving on up."
  • jimmy8091, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"is your site still in the top results?"

    yes, still #1 :)
  • l0g0ut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0well, if you type "miserable failure" and hit on "i'm feeling lucky", it still goes to the same site as regular google
  • Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Making smart keywords for "Big Daddy" (see
    http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.html ) might make checking things easier.
  • crpietschmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I searched for "asp.net 2.0 url mapping regex" and my blog post related to that topic jumped from # 6 to # 2 in the results. sweet!
  • midlifecrisis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Let's hope this also means faster crawls. Recently, MSN was *much* faster in picking up changes (at least with my domains).
  • syneo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wonder why all these irrelevant comments like "Oh my site went up!" That means that someone's site went down, and yours can too.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sweet now my site is finally Cached
  • Mike89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, my sites moved up further too, which is good because everything under the term (LFI) was previously rubbish, and now alot of that is gone and the first result (not mine) is actually relevant
  • Loie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i really hope it will improve on the difference between my searching for a place to BUY something and a place that REVIEWS something I might want to buy Right now this is my greatest annoyance with search engines in general. If i search for ..say.. "hp psc 2355 printer REVIEW" i don't want to sift through pages and pages of e-stores wanting to sell me the thing!
  • narphorium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, looks like they've been indexing a whole lot more with this new algorithm. I'll definitely be playing around with this over the next couple of days.

    Old database: about 9,680,000,000 pages indexed
    New database: about 25,270,000,000 pages indexed
  • nuclei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That entire article is crap and full of inaccuracies. How the hell did this get 1200+ diggs?
  • wormeyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0doesn't work for me?
  • volatileacid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0didn;t google once upon a time list the number of pages they had trawled on their homepage?
  • Zathman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Noticeable differences between the Google with the New Algorithm, and the Current Results, ie:

    www.google.com: Results 1 - 10 of about 93,700,000 for evil [definition]. (0.19 seconds)
    64.233.179.104: Results 1 - 10 of about 257,000,000 for Evil [definition]. (0.08 seconds)
    Difference: +163,300,000 Results; -0.08 seconds load time

    www.google.com: Results 1 - 10 of about 672,000,000 for microsoft. (0.16 seconds)
    64.233.179.104: Results 1 - 10 of about 2,450,000,000 for microsoft. (0.13 seconds)
    Difference: +1,778,000,000 Results; -0.03 seconds load time

    www.google.com: Results 1 - 10 of about 976,000,000 for google. (0.18 seconds)
    64.233.179.104: Results 1 - 10 of about 2,570,000,000 for google. (0.12 seconds)
    Difference: +1,594,000,000 Results; -0.06 seconds load time
  • ear1grey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For current info on the effect it's had, and the apparent status of the rollout, this might help: http://digg.com/technology/Google_Bigdaddy_50_Complete
  • comrade693, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Quoting syneo:
    'I wonder why all these irrelevant comments like "Oh my site went up!" That means that someone's site went down, and yours can too.'

    Yes, but these people are talking about their personal sites when searching for their name or screenname. Seems logical to me that they should be going up.
  • Diseage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the second IP is definetly my new home page now
  • Shmoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is good. I've been getting so annoyed with Google's results lately.
  • syneo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Again, who cares that your sites went up?
  • lunarship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks pretty good to me, though I can't see the number of pages searched.
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