Minty Fresh Updating
A while back Matt Cutts pointed out the minty fresh indexing Google is now exhibiting. Having been lucky enough to be a part of this minty freshness myself, I’ve been watching it a bit. Today I got another fine example of it.
I made a post with the semi-unique title of cuttlet-block and within a couple hours was seeing search traffic to it. So I decided to check it out.
Using regular Google Search:
And using Google Blog Search:
Notice the difference? The blog search has indexed the actual post, whereas the regular index is showing the main index page with the title as content on it. Minty fresh indexing is really a misnomer in this case, it’s actually minty fresh updating of already indexed pages (the home page). The new page isn’t actually indexed yet, but the search term does show up within hours in the index but on pages that are already regularly indexed.
Note also that the “cache” link isn’t present yet on regular index as a quick check of the cache shows and older version crawled yesterday.
What is in the cache does not necessarily equal what the page will be returned for in search results.
