Visible cache lags search results
I’ve been hearing about this super fast indexing behavior in Google seen by some people. I’ve not had the opportunity to witness it myself. Until today.
At 11:55 am I published a new post. This post had the words Muellerite Products in the title and mentioned within the body, not a very competitive term to say the least. So I thought this would be a good post to monitor. I checked an hour later and saw nothing then I checked about two hours later and viola there I am at number 1!
The interesting thing I noticed is that even though the snippet is already present with a part of the original post there is no cache link (see thumbnail above). I went and checked the cache of the page and sure enough it was retrieved on 23 Aug 2007 18:48:32 GMT, yesterday.
From this I can see that the index is freshened faster than saved copies of the page can be updated. I just thought this was an interesting behavior as cache date has been becoming more of an important indicator of a site’s/page’s health.
I haven’t bothered to look at webmaster’s tools that probably says it was last accessed July 9, 1964. Okay, I checked, it says it was accessed yesterday amazingly enough.
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