reverted back to showing old cache

why would this be

[mfishy]

Google recently picked up a new cache of my site and I just noticed that it has switched back to the very old cach today. Any thoughts on why this would happen?

[giggle]

Happened to me as well.

www2. & www3. are showing the new version in cache but www. still showing the old version.

Ho hum.

[steveb]

Cache is irrelevant. Ignore it. Some days the cached page for a freshly crawled site may be two months old.

[eyeinthesky]

Yahoo is showing the new SERPs but Google is still on the old results although www2 and www3 are showing the new results.

Also PR and backward links are still volatile. Seems the dance is still on, guys.

I think cache is relevant as the SERPs ranking is based on the cache, so old cache means old ranking -- unless you prefer the old ranking.

[troels nybo nielsen]

> Seems the dance is still on

It is. One datacenter (www-cw) still has the old index.

[steveb]

"the SERPs ranking is based on the cache, so old cache means old ranking"

That's certainly not true. Sites with no cache at all show in the search results.

[Brian]

mfishy: I think it just does this from time to time as the month goes on. It's not you! You probably know that you can always see the "old" version, compiled at the month's beginning, by sticking the url into google search and then look at the cache. Personally, I do get the feeling it continues to rely on this "old" version for pr purposes, although I also get the feeling that freshed pages are in some way penalized or starved somehow compared with the pages from the monthly crawl.

My homepage drifts back and forth between the monthly crawled page and fresh page.

[freejung]

Looks to me like what I'm seeing is the results of the freshbot crawl which happened during the update. No fresh tags, but I have over 100 fresh pages indexed (yaaay freshbot! :) ). Looks like these pages were crawled a few days ago, so that explains all the freshbot activity during the update.

These pages were definitely not included in the update, didn't even exist during the last deep crawl, so what we have now is the fresh results with no fresh tags. I'm getting the usual fresh bonus in SERPs too.

That doesn't explain why your cached version is older, though. Maybe that page didn't get crawled by freshbot?

[GodLikeLotus]

Google cache of CNN is showing the homepage of 25th January, this is the kind of site I would have thought Google checks and updates "Minty Freshness" pretty often.