Easy Question?

[gatekeeper]

When I look at some of the listings I see the url followed by 40K Aug 20, 2003

What exactly does this mean?
Page size followed by spider date?

[fiestagirl]

Right.
Page size and cache date. Some people call those "fresh tags".

[Wired Suzanne]

And then why was is that some site have those fresh tags and others not?

[percentages]

Because some site owners leave out milk & cookies for Googlebot and some site owners don't........want to Ms Googlebot to come and play with you.....be nice to her ;)

[gatekeeper]

How can we leave out milk and cookies?

[netguy]

>>How can we leave out milk and cookies?

A PR7 and lots of updated content doesn't hurt.
;)

[gatekeeper]

really? Well, one of my sites is a pr 4, 40 pages max, no updated content that gets hit constantly!

Any other help?

[netguy]

gatekeeper, I think we're getting off topic regarding your original question of page size and cache date...

... but there are several other forums going on the subject.
[webmasterworld.com...] is one.

I've noticed that Google is keeping things fresh on my older sites, but some pages are having problems staying in the index on newer ones - regardless of the number of FreshBot visits (or whatever it is calling itself these days).

Martinibuster mentioned that a Google scientist (at SES) mentioned that Gbot is now crawling on a multiple schedule. Some sites get it daily. Some sites get it on a 3-4 week schedule.

IMO, Google is still experimenting....