Google finding updated pages - amazingly fast!

[dcheney]

In one of my niche areas this morning there was a bit of news - details are not important.

It took me 32 minutes from the news breaking to get the updated information posted to my website. (These were changes to already existing pages on the site.)

Googlebot came by and gobbled them up less than 5.5 minutes later.

That's a pretty amazing feat - especially given that its a site of about 50,000 pages.

[dailypress]

Maybe you were just lucky to post 5.5. minutes before Google planned to give your site a visit!

[youfoundjake]

Yesterday, I had a blog post appear in the SERPS an hour later, as matt would say "fresh minty idexing.."

[AnkitMaheshwari]

For on of my client's site, some changes were made on one of the main pages and files were uploaded from client's end. In the process, they somehow managed to delete the meta tags from the page.

It must have taken us around 2 hours to rectify the same as client did not informed us of the changes and we found it ourself.

To our surprise Google cached the non-Meta tag version within this 2 hours window and after we uploaded the correct version, it again indexed the page within around 3 hours. This page generally used to get cached every 4th day approx.

I think there is some other method that G is using these days to find the updated pages...