Google Pluto Update

Posted by Miles Evans

Thought I would throw this up in case anyone missed it. The big news last Friday was the Google backlink update spotted on:

http://64.233.187.104
http://64.233.187.99

This thread at WebmasterWorld dubbed the update Pluto. The update has not yet propagated across data centers as of this writing and I wouldn't expect it to. It seems a Google engineer is just using these servers for some query testing. What on production machines?
On Monday, GoogleGuy posted the following on WMW:

“I agree this one isn't anything to write home about. Like Pluto, I think this would be a shrinking update; the SERPs aren't really changing. :) “

And a final update from GG:

I talked to one of the engineers who would know, and it turns out that it's an engineer who has grabbed the 64.233.187.whatever datacenter for himself to tinker around with making info: queries slightly more accurate. I don't expect the visible/external info: or backlink data to spread to other data centers (or if it did, not for a long time).

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