Meta Tag Changes

Meta do not show on search engine results but are cached?

[financialhost]

I recently did some changes to my meta tags - title tags, description & onpage content, etc.

I notice that the search engine listings are still using the old meta tags & onpage content in the snippet, however clicking on the cache shows that the new content & meta was cached.

Why does it not show up in search results then?
Anyone else notice this before?

[tedster]

Yes, I have also seen this kind of disconnect. In some cases the new text appears a bit later. In other cases, Google may be using ODP titles -- in which case you can use the noodp meta tag.

Apparently caching a new version of a page and changing the SERP are not one seamless piece. But given the size of the web, I'm not surprised that the process must be broken into steps.

[g1smd]

The snippet and the cache are disconnected, often updating hours apart.

Sometimes, a datacentre may "freeze" one or the other for days at a time, leading to anomolies where the cache and snippet data are very different with one or the other not actually matching the search terms used.