Alternate Google Search Site - Relevance?

[kiwimagic]

From my reading of different forums it has been pointed out that by going to http://216.239.37.99/ (which is an alternate Google Search site) you will see different results than the Google live results. My searches from this url exactly match those of AOL live results. Over the past few days, I have made minor tweaks to my site, and moved it up considerably both at http://216.239.37.99/ (Google) and AOL. These tweaks have affected the live Google results, but not as dramatically as in the alternate Google and AOL searches.

Do the live Google results have additional filters, which would explain the descrepancies, or what is exactly going on here? From my perspective, it would be great if the AOL results would eventually replace the live Google results.

[mcdar]

http://216.239.37.99 is one of many servers that Google uses to produce results.

You can use this tool to see the results on MANY different servers.
Google Datacenter Watch Tool

[kiwimagic]

Ahhh....thank you for that. Now I understand!!