We now have three different threads in the past week that report Google has the wrong site in its cache for a query. We have seen this before, where we said Google Slow to Update Cache Data? In that case,...
We now have three different threads in the past week that report Google has the wrong site in its cache for a query. We have seen this before, where we said Google Slow to Update Cache Data? In that case,...
You've gotta love being too dependent on a good thing. But when it goes down, boom -- the unfortunate occurs and you notice. Earlier, a bunch of folks looking at the Google Cache couldn't find what they were looking for...
An interesting question at Cre8asite Forums has been asked: when you click on the cached version of a website, does it show up in the website's log files? One member says yes, as long as there are images on the...
Take a look at a site:familyonetransportation.com query. Notice everything looks fine and dandy. Now, lets look at the cache:familyonetransportation.com result for that page. Why is it displaying the cache of a different site? Currently, I see ShuttlesInOrlando.com for a cache...
The other day we reported of a Possible GoogleBot DNS Issues Causing Indexing Issues at Google.com. It has now been confirmed as an issue, and is now reportedly fixed. Susan Moskwa of Google said in a Google Groups post: It...
A WebmasterWorld thread has two claims from respected members, giving us a little more insight into Google's search engine. The first thing we learn is that Google has several cache databases. When doing site search "site:exmple.com" when I see the...
A High Rankings Forum member has run into a very strange issue on Yahoo. She has recently optimized her page and sees that it is updated in Yahoo, but not all elements seem to have been updated. I just completed...
Marcia posted a thread at WebmasterWorld informing us that Yahoo! Search is now highlighting the keyword search you have done, when you click on the cache link. For example, if you search on search engine roundtable in Yahoo! Search and...
Pretty much every webmaster runs into this once a year. Someone publishes something on the Web and they did not mean to put it up on the Web. Google crawls it and someone finds this information while searching on Google....
A WebmasterWorld thread reports that Yahoo!'s cache is mishandling the <SUP> </SUP> (superscript) HTML tag. The superscript tag basically looks like this, often used for adding comments1 numbers for reference or other characters to words. Yahoo! Moderator, jdMorgan, confirmed this...
The Google cache typically only stored about 100KB of your page. So if you had a heavy page with lots of content, not all of that page would be seen in the Google cache. That seems to have changed at...
A very small but yet somewhat interesting observation has been made at Search Engine Watch Forums. You know how when you click on the "cache" link in the Google.com search results and Google will highlight the keywords you searched on,...
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