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New date showing up in serps

Today a new date has started showing for my site

         

travelin cat

7:49 pm on Apr 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Whenever I see my index page show up in the serps there is a date to the right of the first line in light grey which is preceded by a hyphen. This date is not clickable as the rest of the line is.

The date that shows up after the url on the 3rd line is still there, but they are different by one day.

Also, the cache date is different then both of these, also by one day.

Anyone else seeing this? And what does it represent?

justbrowsing

10:58 pm on Apr 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

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The date in grey is Google's nifty new "web history" feature. It tells you the date you last clicked on that serp listing. Click it again, and it should update to today's date and add something like "two visits".

There's more about it in this thread: [webmasterworld.com...]

travelin cat

11:22 pm on Apr 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

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justbrowsing,

thanks for that.

g1smd

11:35 pm on Apr 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Fresh dates are often different to cache dates, because the cache date/time is quoted in UTC (GMT) and the Fresh Date uses the time zone at the Googleplex, some 8 hours different (7 in US Summer).