Im evaluating search engines for my course and i cant find out any info on how to check the freshness of search engine query results. Can anyone out there help me please?
2006-11-03 22:43:07 · 3 answers · asked by nikki a 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
in google if you hit the cached option at the bottom line of the search result it will take you to the cached page on the top line of this it will tell you the date and time this page was cached on.
All the results on the page will not have the same cached date as the robots are constantly working at updating the cache's and therefore what date a page is cached on is dependent on when the bot got to them.
2006-11-03 22:46:55 · answer #1 · answered by doyler78 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is a good question. The newer results are likely to be the latest - but there are no dates. I always put a date automatically on my website when I update it - but some information on the Internet is years old and out of date. As the Internet is relatively new this is only just becoming a problem - but a problem that the search engines need to address. When the spider bots collect data - they need to put in the database when they collected it.
2006-11-04 06:57:48 · answer #2 · answered by Mike10613 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://www.google.com/apis/reference.html
2006-11-04 06:45:48 · answer #3 · answered by NoMaD! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋