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Google just updated the main database as of Thanksgiving. The main crawl that's currently happening will appear hopefully before the end of the year.
They do not update the main database as they crawl.
If you're lucky enought to have "freshbot" visits, some of your updated pages will sporadically appear in the results, but this is a different process altogether. They crawl some pages with the freshbot crawler and intermix those results with the results. These come and go, can't be counted on, but are nice to see.
See the Google Update FAQ [webmasterworld.com]