Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google cache'

Increase in Reports of Google Caching Wrong Pages

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,...

Google Slow to Update Cache Data?

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...

Google Confirms & Retracts Post on "Minutes" Crawl Time Stamp

Last week I reported that the Google Cache Showing Last Retrieve Dates in Minutes. Then we have been waiting for an official confirmation from Google on this. Google's Matt Cutts awkwardly confessed that something was obviously up, but did so...

Google Cache Showing Last Retrieve Dates in Minutes

A WebmasterWorld reports finding that Google is showing the cache date in minutes. Typically, Google shows a date and not a countdown in minutes as to when Googlebot last retrieved the page. Here is an example of Google showing the...

Google.com Has Multiple Cache Pages & Snippet Archives

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...

Google Cache Archiving More of Your Page?

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...

Google's Cache for Supplemental Results Does Not Highlight Query Words

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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