Hi all,

I've raised this problem on Google Groups user support section but no decent responses as yet.

My site www.horizon-arts.co.uk has been up and running for a while and I recently noticed that Google has indexed it. However when I went to work eager to show people... it didn't work!?!

The when I google "horizon arts" at work I get a different set of results than I do at home.

I have posted screendumps of the differing results:

Home Results: http://www.horizon-arts.co.uk/images/screendumps/homedump.gif

Work Results: http://www.horizon-arts.co.uk/images/screendumps/workdump.gif

Anybody know why this happens? I have already been directed to Google Dance which was no help at all as trying it at work shows all the same results I get at work. Trying it at home shows me all the same results I get athome.

Any help appreciated

Thanks

Craig

You must be hitting different Google datacenters. By the looks of the page counts, I would bet the larger one (Home) is a Big Daddy (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy-progress-update/) dc. You can hit different dcs from the same computer at different times too. This has always been true, but the differences are more pronounced with Big Daddy.

You can usually tell a Big Daddy dc by using Matt Cutt's sf giants test (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy-on-the-move/) (or because the page count is significantly higher):

Also, it looks like [sf giants] is a fine query to see if you’re hitting Bigdaddy. If you get giants.mlb.com at #1, you’re searching Bigdaddy. If you get www.sfgiants.com at #1 and an uncrawled url http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/sf/homepage/sf_homepage.jsp at #3, you’re hitting the older Google infrastructure.
See related SEW threads:

New Google "Bigdaddy" Infrastructure Live, Data Center Open For Feedback (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=9295)

Big Daddy, Big WHOA (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=10408)

Keep in mind the Big Daddy infrastructure is being rolled out on more dcs over time. If you use the ip address access method to hit a particular dc, those results will change too, when the new infrastructure is implemented on that dc.

Hope that helps! ;)

martin

So is there a way to see which DC I am logged on to when I type in the address "www.google.co.uk" ?

Its strange how none of the computers I have used at work have ever given me search results with my site in the listing. But when I search from home my site is ALWAYS in the listing.

Anyone know why this might be happening?

Cheers

Craig

For Google Production Datacenters:

q check tool at http://mcdar.net (site is currently down for maintenance)

For Big Daddy Datacenters:

http://www.tony-hill.net/bigdaddywatch/

Is there a way to see where you would rank from different locations around the globe. For example, how would I check what my google ranking is for "Boston web design" in Boston and in Paris?

Is there a way to see where you would rank from different locations around the globe. For example, how would I check what my google ranking is for "Boston web design" in Boston and in Paris?Assuming you are referring to regular organic search and not local, you could go to google.fr and search the web (not pages from France or French language pages) and you should see what the French see. To really be sure, you could try this via a French proxy server. Then do the search on google.com, then compare. Once again, if there is any geotargetting going on in the main organic google.com index, you could test this via regional proxies.

From my experience, the individual country sites (search the web) results are a bit different sometimes.

martin

How do I find a French Proxy Server?