what does the "cache" date indicate when doing a google search? Is that the date the page was posted?

Question

Is the cache date made on a regular basis as the search engine crawls the web? is it an expiration date? what does the cache date indicate? is there a way to see when a page was created?
no one seems to have these answers, maybe you can help?
thanks!

Answer 1

It's either the date page was updated or last time somebody accessed page!

Willy

Answer 2

The cache date is when it was loaded into the cache server. This basically means it's the date the information was stored to the search engine's database. It also means there may be a newer version of the site with more updated information, rendering older information obsolete, as the search engine may not show accurate results after the cache date.

Answer 3

The cache date is the date that the web page was indexed by Google (a copy of what it looked like originally), not the date of website creation necessarily.

Answer 4

here's google's definition:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#cached

think of a cache as a place to store information very fast.

in this case google stores 'snapshots' of many websites into a cache so that the page could stilled be viewable to some degree if the page were to become unavailable for some reason.

Answer 5

Cache means you aren't on the web and your computer is calling the page up from its own history.

Answer 6

Thats the data of the Cache, or "COPY" of that page that google has on their servers, that way, if the site goes down, you can still see it

Answer 7

Regarding Nympho and indifference LMAO! Funny!!

Answer 8

no way