Google’s Last Visited Time Stamp Gets Down To The Minute
Aug 1, 2007 at 8:41am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google Cache Showing Last Retrieve Dates in Minutes at Search Engine Roundtable shows how Google is now showing when it last visited some pages on a per minute or per hour basis, rather than in the traditional per day style.
For example, this is how Google has normally shown last visit dates for some pages:
Now some pages are getting a time stamp showing they were last visited within minutes or hours, rather than days:
You should be able to reproduce this yourself by going to http://66.249.89.147/ and searching for some news sites that Google is known to spider on a frequent basis, suc [...]
Filed in: Google: Web Search, Search Features: Dates, Stats: Freshness
Finding Search Engine Freshness & Crawl Dates
Feb 27, 2007 at 3:47pm ET by Danny Sullivan
A reader emailed me today noticing that Google was showing a date next to his
listing, which made me think this was a good time to revisit how, when
and where search engines show crawl dates for pages. These dates are a useful
way for site owners to understand how often they are being revisited or for
anyone to "squeeze the loaf" of a search engine to see how fresh it is. Here's a
search engine-by-search engine rundown on date display. I'll also cover how
we've sadly lost crawl dates being embedded next to listings, over the years.
But that's not all! Read now and you'll even [...]
Filed in: Ask: SEO, Ask: Web Search, Google: SEO, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Bing SEO, SEO: Blocking Spiders, SEO: General, SEO: Titles & Descriptions, Search Features: Dates, Stats: Freshness, Yahoo: SEO, Yahoo: Site Explorer
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