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How Stale Is The Google Loaf?

searchengineland.com — This article tells you how to tell if Google's listings are fresh or stale -- as well as doing the same for the other major search engines.

Who dugg this? Made popular Feb 28, 2007

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  • actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27SPOILER: You read the date beneath the result.
  • dannysullivan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Actually, the point of the article is that there isn't a date beneath most of the results. Google and Microsoft only show dates for relatively few pages, and only when those have been freshly updated. Yahoo and Ask don't show dates at all. Instead, you have to drill into cache pages at Google, Microsoft and Ask on a page-by-page basis to assess freshness. It's sort of like putting Best Used By dates only on products in a story that haven't passed those dates already, or otherwise putting the dates into the product packaging, so you only know after you make the purchase.
  • apolloandi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11dear diary,
    today i actually read the link that i clicked on
  • dannysullivan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8That's search geek, to you :)
  • billbillbilly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8This is G o o g l e's cache of http://www.google.com/ as retrieved on Feb 21, 2007 10:28:08 GMT.
    http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J:www.google.com/+google&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
    am i the only one who thinks google cacheing it self is funny?
  • actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Hey SEO geek -- I was just kidding.
  • Joe_rigby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Maybe he's talking about bread ... twist ties help?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Loaf. LOL.
  • Hidama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Do you like penicillin on your google searches?

    Oh, I love TMNT.
  • actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When Google's spider runs, it doesn't care much where it's running from -- and that should be embraced.
  • actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I know who you are, Sullivan. :)

    *cough* ClickZ *cough*
  • ChronicColonic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Almost a programmatic loop, isn't it? It's like the cartoon vacuum cleaner that makes itself disappear by turning on itself...only in reverse.
  • 1KrazyKorean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea what that guy said just use those twistie ties =P
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2the itty bitty kitty loaf :-o
  • blackkbot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yahoo does similar things but it also has a cache of a copy of the cache.
    http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?p=%22Below+is+a+cache+of+%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt&u=www.collie.org/vcwf.html&w=%22below+is+a+cache+of%22&d=cp4nFxIeORpK&icp=1&.intl=us
  • katkac, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Good article, I've never noticed the dates on google searches
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Have the feeling Google could be anti semitic.
  • superpixel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I was hoping for an analysis of Google's half-baked philosophy: "Everything is Beta." Hell, even their Premier Apps are in beta-- as I've had friends who can't get the phone support they are paying for, let alone email support. Instead I get a little info on dates. Yee haw.
  • nick34, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Your choice of words for the headline was Loaf?...................................



    ............ Loaf?????
  • adragons, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Yes, Google is great, but enough with the poop jokes.

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