How soon/often is the google search updated

[goetz]

I just now (2011-01-15 00:55 GMT+01) stumbled over a stale result of the google search:

Search for "snipets" (http://developer.qt.nokia.com/search?search=snipets) gives wiki page "Code_Snipets":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Code_Snipets, which has been removed recently.

How often resp. when is the google search index updated?

[mgran]

I just checked the Google webmaster stats and yesterday it crawled 8 thousand pages.

We have about 28 thousand pages all in all so it will take a few days to go over them. And I bet Google has some funky algorithm to crawl some pages more frequently than others, so dividing 28 on 8 probably doesn't make sense.

[goetz]

Would it be possible to add the date when goole last saw the page to the results?

[mgran]

Doesn't look like Google provides that data. (http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/api.html)

The value of having the date there is marginal isn't it? It wouldn't solve the issue of hitting a page that is no longer there.

[goetz]

It's not really important. It would only be handy if it was available. No need to worry...