"Fresh" from the search results

But no dates...

[DerekH]

One of my colleagues' sites crashed last weekend and it's been sitting up on the Net as an Apache Test Page ever since. PR4 before it disappeared up its own index page.

People have been talking about FreshBot vs DeepBot - well, my colleague's new page is now in the SERPS, cached, but without a date. I'm pretty sure it's only an Everflux page, but there's definitely no date on any of the 9 data centres.

My own site has now reached number one in this category, but my colleague's has only fallen to number two, despite having only a test page. I guess the 599,998 below him will be writing to the forum shortly to complain about their own ranking!

Anyone have any comments.
Ta!
DerekH

[Dayo_UK]

Fresh Serps seem to have been appearing recently without dates and staying in the index for a longer period (dont always seem to be pernament though) - the latest fresh pages seem to have been from 30th May.

However there was a fresh crawl on 2nd June and the pages are yet to show in the index.

[jimbeetle]

is now in the SERPS, cached, but without a date

That *used to* indicate a listing derived from deepbot. Now, with G seemingly in a constant state of everflux and freshbot acting like deepbot and vice versa, well, who the heck really knows. As long as the page is there get some usable content up before it disappears.