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Google - Update "Big Daddy"
Posted February 01, 2006

From Matt Cutts Blog:

Matt was on Webmaster Radio recently and in case you don't want to download a 70 megabyte audio file, here's the latest on Bigdaddy.

"Bigdaddy" is the name of the current update. The name came from the "round table" discussion with Matt at Webmaster World in Vegas a few months ago. I was part of that discussion, and Matt must not have heard of my excellent suggestion. It happens.

Bigdaddy continues to roll out and is now available at three data centers. In addition to 66.249.93.104 and 64.233.179.104, Bigdaddy is now up at 216.239.51.104. Matt says that his team has been going through the spam feedback and acting on it, and reading through the general search feedback as well.

Q&A from Matt:

Q: Is Bigdaddy still on track and launching?
A: Yes. Remember that Bigdaddy involves new infrastructure and is not just a data push or algorithm update. Don't take it as a promise, but I'd expect a new data center to be converted to Bigdaddy roughly every 10 days or so. Again, take that as a rule of thumb. There are smart folks doing this transition, and they're deciding how to do it in the best way.

Q: Will those IP addresses always show Bigdaddy results?
A: No, not always. Sometimes data centers are taken out of the rotation for testing or other reasons.

Q: Is there an easy way to test if a datacenter is running Bigdaddy?
A: There's not a definitive way outside of Google. If the query [sf giants] returns giants.mlb.com, the odds are pretty good that you're hitting Bigdaddy.

Q: How will I see the switchover happen?
A: It will happen naturally as more data centers switch over to the Bigdaddy infrastructure. The more data centers there are using Bigdaddy, the odds of you hitting a Bigdaddy data center in the normal rotation go up.

Q: Can I still give spam or quality feedback?
A: Absolutely.