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[kelly]

Hi,

This morning I went to google-dance.com and search for the keyword "ceiling fan" and the web site I'm working for was at #1 for www2.google.com and www3.google.com. I waited until the afternoon and checked www.google.com and we appeared at #1... but when I searched again it disappeared and return back to #14. But www2 and www3 is still showing the web site at #1... so my question is why is www2 and www3 so different from www? And also when is this June update going to end?

Thanks,
Kelly

[Advisor]

It just started. So what you're seeing is normal. Go back to Google in a few days and check again, and all should be well. Maybe.



Jill

[bragadocchio]

Hi Kelly,

That ranking may be an encouraging sign of things to come.

The www2 and www3 subdomains are test domains, and many have hypothesized that their purpose is to allow web masters to get a peek at how the new index might end up.

When you normally go to www.google.com, it's possible that you might end up at any of the data centers that Google has. The Google dance is when the information is being slowly introduced to all of the data centers, and you may end up at different ones everytime you visit -- which is why you saw different results there for two different visits.

When you go to the www2 or www3 subdomains, you end up going to a fixed location - an address that doesn't change the way the main google address does. That's why the ranking stayed the same there.

According to the efactory folks, only one of the data centers has finished.

http://dance.efactory.de/

If this dance goes like the ones before the last dance, it will be a number of days before the rankings remain steady, and before fluctuations in page rank halt (maybe five days to a week). Hopefully, that's what will happen. But, if it ends up like the last dance, it may take longer.

[callback]

According to the dance site, one more data center (www-dc) has completed dance and got new index. However, I found search results were different in these two new data bases. For example, searching for my site using fj center by typing "international callback", my site was not there at all. But if going to dc center, my site was ranked #1. So, how do we interpret this odd?

[bragadocchio]

Unfortunately, the best answer I can give you is that we wait...

While the dance site keeps track of the dance, it isn't affiliated with Google, and it is possible that it may make a mistake. It's also possible that this dance is different from any other before it.

I saw references to a deepfreshbot in another forum. Speculation is fine, but there are too many variables and unknowns for us to make reasonable predictions at this point.