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OUT MORE ABOUT OPTIMIZING YOU WEB SITE FROM GOOGLE
About the "Google Dance"
During the month, Google sends out robots (spiders) to crawl the web and
archive every website it finds. These archived websites will be presented
in the next update of the Google index (database). The update process
is initiated every 30 days or so, although on some occasions there have
been more than 30 days between updates.
Google has 3 main www servers online:
www.google.com - The main address, the true homepage of google.
www2.google.com - Test server.
www3.google.com - Test server.
Whilst nobody outside of "Google" truly
seems to know the purpose of the www2 & www3 servers, many
people have come to the assumption that they are test servers.
During the update, which takes several days, the 3 Google servers
display different results. Whilst the results vary from server
to server, they are said to be "dancing", hence the name "Google
Dance".
The www2 & www3 servers are the ones most closely
observed during the dance.