Posts from — October 2007

The other day I was checking cache on a site and saw that the Google toolbar shows cache a couple of days behind. It delivers it into the Google Search a day or so later. Therefore, if your site is crawled on Monday it could take until Wednesday for the cached site to show up. So this leads one to immediately surmise that the cache is not really in the index, that this is not searchable until later. However, it should be noted that Google actually serves some content within a few minutes of it’s being put online, specifically blog content. We posted a news headline on one of our blogs and it was in Google immediately. Wow. We are talking within 5 minutes of the post.

If you visit that blog you’ll note that the cache for homepage is October 2, but the article that we posted October 5 is actually in the index. How does this happen?

Ping servers listed in your options usually notify Google to index the page. The minute you post a ping is sent out to those servers and they are pinging Google. Technorati is usually one of the first to deliver content from a ping, but Google actually picked it up on their own much faster.