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Basic "Fresh" tag question

Never seen one

         

anallawalla

10:30 am on Apr 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Q: [Googlebot] What is "fresh" next to my listing?
A: For the last two years, Google has performed one major update on a monthly bases. That update includes data from a full web crawl (spidering). This includes a full recalculation of PageRank values.
Recently (dec 2001) Google has begun spidering certain pages and sites on a weekly, or daily basis. When Google performs these "mini updates" on a site, it lists a "fresh" tag next to the site in the directory.

Some webmaster data indicates that there is a very small increase in click rates when your page has a "Fresh!" tag next too it.



Can someone point me to a SERP that shows a Fresh tag? I looked at cnn.com thinking that its pages have got to be fresh. They show today's date (freshbot entries) but I cannot find any "Fresh" tags.

- Ash

garylo

10:37 am on Apr 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

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You can say that the date is the Fresh tag.

vitaplease

10:55 am on Apr 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Google stopped showing the word "Fresh" in the Serps last year around this time. (now they only show the date - sometimes)

anallawalla

6:21 am on Apr 4, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Thank you all for restoring my sanity. You still see people mentioning them, even placing "Fresh" in quotes. :)