Tool Monitors Google's Datacenters

[Garrett]

If you're an algoholic who can't stop watching Google's algorithm, then there's a good chance you watch their datacenters closely. Here's a program that will let you monitor them from your desktop so you can quit searching the datacenters individually to see if there's an update coming.

From SEO optimization firm xseo comes Dancer, a datacenter monitor that will keep you notified of any changes. "It compares each server with the first; if different it changes the dot from red to another colour."

You can set it to monitor the datacenters for any term as well as a site and the program will let you know the ranking every 10 minutes (do you think you can wait that long?).

According to the site, "a low competition Search Term results in the servers' aligning more quickly, using a high competition Search Term gives a more sensitive "dance" detector."

Read about the download here.

[emi_b]

I downloaded the tool, but what do all the colors mean.?

[Garrett]

From http://www.xseo.com/download.htm:

The Dancer monitors the various Google servers, so that you can see at a glance whether the servers are different or the same. It compares each server with the first; if different it changes the dot from red to another colour. It then compares the next server; if the same as the first then it'll be the same colour as the first; if the same as the second then it'll be the same as the second; if different again it'll show a completely different colour, and so on.

[emi_b]

Then I am assuming that there is re-ndexing going on. My whole thing looks technicolor.

[jemshaw]

We've recently started using XSEO's RankMonitor to check and report on the search engine positioning of our clients. It's a great tool, and we partiucularly like the usage feature. It's only since using RankMonitor that we've really started to appreciate the importance of Dancer. If you submit a ranking report to a client while Google's dancing, your client checks your results and comes back to call you a liar (believe me, I know!). So now we check using Dancer to see what Google's up to before we submit the report.

Just going back to XSEO (www.xseo.com)to get the Pro version...

[globalhostinggroup]

Wow this is cool I always have a separate system providing me with info so this is a great addition to my info system.

[JohnF]

Anyone besides me have any trouble with XSEO software? Just curious, I loaded pagerank and it took me three hours to get my pc back.

JF

[JohnF]

Again the question. Has anyone had any trouble with Xeos software? I did and am really angry about it.

They've either unintentionally let java outside the box or have done so maliciously. Either way, the little fellow showing up and touting "I'm gonna upgrade" needs to explain why his software hammers your system.
JF

[sfowler]

They probably worked for HP earlier. Their "upgrade" to the printer software turned out to be 168 MB and then not initialise when started! My connection only has 1 GB per month before they start bleeding me dry, so I don't really appreciate the idea of downloading 168 MB a second time "just to see if it works" as their support people suggested!

[JohnF]

I sent them an email asking if they simply have buggy software or if they are intentionally distrubiting malicious progams. So far I haven't received a reply.

I'm going to keep this thread alive until I determine which is the case. In a day or two my next move is to ask Macafee and Micro Trend to analyze their software as a potential threat and see what happens.

JF