When youre a search engine that accounts for over 46% of all searches on the Internet, you are a bona fide Big Daddy. But for Google, its more than a nicknameits the future.
For months now, the 7-year-old search engine has been testing new crawling and indexing systems with the hopes of making web searches more intuitive and accurate. The project, called Bigdaddy, is much more than a software update. Its a total refit of the search engines infrastructure and software.
Its not just a data push or algorithm update, says Search Engineer Matt Cutts of Google. Three data centers have so far been updated with new ones coming online every 10 days, a pace thats expected to increase. Web users can access the updated Google search by typing in the IP address of the updated servers in their address bar: 66.249.93.104, 64.233.179.104 or 216.239.51.104. All of Googles reported 85+ data centers are expected to be updated around the end of February or early March, and the closer we get to that time, the odds increase that your Google search will hit a Bigdaddy data center.
What Bigdaddy addresses
The biggest issue Bigdaddy will fix is hijacking redirects of URL...