More results of a gigantic overhaul of Google's data centers are starting to show, industry watchers say. (eWEEK.com)There are some new signs of Google Inc.'s rumored "Big Daddy" infrastructure overhaul, search engine industry sources say.
The evidence, now winding through the online community, led one Google aficionado screen-named SEOBrains to recently write "It seems like Big Daddy is 100 percent live."
Sources contacted by eWEEK have confirmed many recent examples cited by participants on Search Engine Watch and other online forums.
Big Daddy, said to be the project's nickname, refers to new data centers that Google was said to be developing and is now said to be testing.
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Google and other search engines rely on a global network of data centers to perform core tasks like cataloging Web sites or serving up localized features.
The Big Daddy project stands out because search engines infrequently upgrade the computing and networking hardware. Instead, the firms focus on developing new features to lure more site visitors, which translates to more advertising revenues.
Infrastructure changes have a big impact on the enterprises and consumers that are increasingly relying on Google, and other search engines, in their day-to-day activities.
Lending support to these rumors, back in January, Google's chief search engineer, Matt Cutts, wrote on his blog that what he called the new "Bigdaddy" technology was in place in two of Google's data centers.
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