potentialgeek - 12:56 am on Jul 22, 2008 (gmt 0)

I usually check a page cache to see if Google spidered it and indexed/ranked it. I think maybe even though the cache isn't completely up to date, the ranking pretty much still is. It's a cache lag. (Publishers with AdSense are used to stats lags.)

Google may be running out of storage space again and obviously the least critical storage is the cache. With no study to back this up, my guess is 99% of Google users don't use the cache unless and until a site/page goes down/is missing.

It's a huge resource burden that may not be financially justified.

p/g