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Prior to this, the original web designer had just stuffed it full of keywords and search results contained nothing more meaningful, just a repetition of keyword.
After my 'fix' - the site appeared to have been correctly re-indexed and the correct page snippets were appearing in the search results description.
A week later for no apparent reason, the search results reverted back to the original keyword stuffed description.
Has Google suddenly learnt to time travel?
Putting this to one side, I convinced the site owner to ditch the frames, and am now waiting for the new site to be picked up.
My own site has a PR4 an appears to get updated weekly.
How long might we have to wait for the results for the PR2 site to change and is there still a chance that Google will one day restore the old cached site from its archives?
Wait for the new update - hopefully the changes will turn up, if not then you'll have to wait another month.
Google has two types of robot trawling the web, the deepcrawl bot and freshbot. Freshbot finds new content, indexes it, puts it in the main results for a few days and then it drops out again. That's what you saw. The deepcrawl bot spiders the whole web and then once a month all the data for every indexed website is permanently updated. We're waiting for the next update in the next few days. If the change to your content occurred before the deepcrawl bot last came past your site then you should be in the results for this coming update. If you missed it then you'll be caught by the next crawl, just after the update, and put in the index permanently in about a month's time.
Welcome to WebmasterWorld! :)
So does that mean that if you refresh your content every couple of days, that your 'new' pages won't appear to get dropped i.e. because they will have been replaced by a more recent freshbot crawl?
If it does, it would be a great incentive to include a few abstracts (on what has changed deep in your site) on your home page
