Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'cache'

An interesting thread at Google Web Search Help started by "anotherDad" tells the story of how a father was shocked to see a pornographic site come up in the Google search results for a search for his daughter's name. He...

Posted on June 24, 2009 8:46 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that in some cases the Google AdSense ads will not render when using Google Translate or viewing the page on Google Cache. We reported about the Google Cache issue about a year ago, and back then...

Posted on June 18, 2009 7:06 AM

99.999% of people would never notice this nor care about it, but a Google Webmaster Help thread has discussion around a very small bug in Google's cache. If you view the cache of a W3 document for a match on...

Posted on April 17, 2009 8:20 AM

A Google Webmaster Help thread has complaints from some webmasters on how Google's Cache view doesn't render all web pages as they are seen in a typical browser. Let me show you an example, if you view the cache of...

Posted on April 7, 2009 8:30 AM

Google has a cache, basically, the cache allows you to look at pages as Google crawled them. The question is, at least in a Google Webmaster Help thread, is the Google cache storing everything locally at Google? John, a top...

Posted on December 10, 2008 8:21 AM

If you login to Google Webmaster Tools you may notice that something is missing. Google has removed the date from the Home page crawl field from the site overview page. The field was grouped in the "Home Page Crawl" section....

Posted on October 17, 2008 6:04 AM

Google has just updated the design of the Google Cache result page. For example, a look at the Google Cache for RustyBrick.com, shows: Just two days ago, when I reported the cache dates were off, I took a screen shot...

Posted on July 25, 2008 7:51 AM

In a Google Groups thread, a forum member wonders about the details and logistics about Google's cache. JohnMu, a Google representative, offers his $0.02 and gives some interesting tidbits. First and foremost, if you experience any cache issues or errors,...

Posted on July 21, 2008 10:16 AM

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,...

Posted on March 4, 2008 7:33 AM

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...

Posted on December 19, 2007 10:14 AM

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...

Posted on October 10, 2007 9:36 AM

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...

Posted on September 26, 2007 8:02 AM

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...

Posted on September 19, 2007 8:03 AM

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...

Posted on July 9, 2007 7:37 AM

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...

Posted on July 3, 2007 11:09 AM

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...

Posted on February 23, 2007 8:09 AM

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....

Posted on December 29, 2006 7:33 AM

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...

Posted on December 14, 2006 7:56 AM

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...

Posted on November 30, 2006 8:02 AM

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,...

Posted on September 4, 2006 8:22 AM