Results for my site has a date

But other sites on the page don't

[dickbaker]

I was checking the results on Google for a number of keywords for one of my sites. Under the description of each of the pages is the usual address and page size (ie., "www.myclient.com 34k").

But all of the pages of my client's site also have the date "July 26, 2003" after the page size. None of the other sites that come up on Google have a date on them.

What does this mean?

[a1call]

Hi,
Never seen that. Sounds interesting. Might be a brand new feature declaring the cache date.
Would you mind sending me a sticky note of the search turms?

[digitalghost]

What you're seeing is the "fresh tag". A site search will turn up several threads about fresh tags.

From the Glossary:

Googles webcrawler/spider has two modes of operation. One is a "deepcrawler" that indexes the entire web once or twice a month. The second mode is a spider that downloads high ranking or frequently updated pages approximatly every 24 to 72 hours. That daily mode is called "freshbot" to reflect the "fresh" tag Google puts next to recently updated pages in search results.

[dickbaker]

digitalghost, thanks for the explanation.

a1call, the dates are gone from the search results. But the site's still holding the same rank for the keywords. Yes!