Google removed fresh dates from their index

[SEOPTI]

I have not seen any for quite a few days. Seems like they trashed them.

[rustybrick]

Hmm, I don't see them either.

Anyone else?

[eltercerhombre]

Same happens to me. I can't remember the last time I've seen it, but I think more than a week/10 days ago.

[rustybrick]

I see it now.

Go to [google.com...]

Second result...

Here is a screen cap [flickr.com...]

Do you see it?

[Habtom]

Do you see it?

Not in the search result.

[TheSeoDude]

I had some pages dugg and they all had fresh dates on.

[rustybrick]

do some searches on recent articles from news sites, see if any articles come up, outside of the news results, but within the main web index.

Those typically have fresh dates.

[SEOPTI]

I think they just try to hide from the public that they are not able to provide fresh search results this August.

It's obviously because their indexing process has been almost shut down.

It's like with the supplemental index, they hide something until it's solved. If you can't solve it, just hide it.

[Robert Charlton]

do some searches on recent articles from news sites, see if any articles come up, outside of the news results, but within the main web index.

Those typically have fresh dates.

The fast breaking news stories that you'd also see in Google News currently do provide fresh dates. The press release "news" stories targeting commercial terms currently do not provide fresh dates.

[europeforvisitors]

I think they just try to hide from the public that they are not able to provide fresh search results this August.

From what Rustybrick and Robert Charlton have said, it seems more likely that they're simply able to indicate freshness when it matters (e.g., in a news story) while avoiding visual clutter when it doesn't.

[pageoneresults]

I see the fresh dates when doing site: searches. Just did one and it shows 49 minutes ago. Last time I checked, it said 1 hour ago. I think those "minty fresh" dates are "very dynamic" and come and go throughout the day. It is all relative to the indexing patterns of your site. If you are getting millions of visits a month from Googlebot, there's probably a good chance that most of your upper level pages have fresh times associated with them.

[skweb]

I have seen that with my blog, I will see it within minutes. Sometimes even saying updated 2 minutes ago. In other words people can find my latest post within minutes of it being published.