Whoops, Google rolled out Caffeine update on  209.85.225.103 data center.

Many folks reported on different SEO forums and blogs that they are experiencing major changes in SERPs of Google and took it as some major update in Google Algorithm but then after Matt Cutts confirmed that 209.85.225.103 as an IP address currently hits the Caffeine data center about 50% of the time. So the changes people are seeing is of Google Caffeine update on 209.85.225.103 data center and not an major algorithmic changes.

Google promised that they would not fully launch Caffeine on all data center until they launch it one a single data center before holiday season, and that did the same. Nothing unexpected!

Words from Matt Cutts:

“My plane landed and I had time to check. 209.85.225.103 as an IP address currently hits the Caffeine data center about 50% of the time, so that’s probably what the person at DP was seeing.

I think it’s really risky to take a few threads and turn that into a “major Google update.” For example, one of the links you pointed to was asking about the rankings for their site webtlk.com. Given links like http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:iwkj8P8xoSEJ:teqtonik.com/+http://teqtonik.com/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a talking about data recovery and pointing to that site, I’m guessing that Google just got better at determining how much weight should be given to links to that site.

So 209.85.225.103 does hit the Caffeine data center more often than other IP addresses, but it’s always been the plan that Caffeine would roll out at one data center (no more data centers will get Caffeine until at least January).

But I would avoid generalizing, at least as going by the one report that mentioned a specific site that I looked into. Of course, on a lot of the webmaster forums you can’t tell what site they’re talking about, so it’s hard to do any debugging on what might have happened to individual sites there.”

Caffeine is now live on 209.85.225.103 (single data center at least 50% of the time), so check out your ranking & features on same!

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