Minty Fresh and quantity

Google's Fresh Date seems to be expanding

[billy_t9]

After the recent update I noticed that from 1-3 pages that usually get the "freh Date" now I have more than 30 pages with this cool sign. Not that I am complaining but I would like to ask if anyone else has make a deeper analysis on this.
Also what is the tendency of your sites about this phenomena.

[martin]

I guess that ODP listed pages may be eligible to freshness and also pages with a high PageRank value.

[curlykarl]

Hi

I have had my site go up and it has a date next to it, what does it mean?

www.mydomain.com/ - 19k - 6 Oct 2002

I have never seen this before and it does not appear next to anyone elses page within my search terms !

Regards

Curlykarl

[vitaplease]

curlykarl,

congratulations, you (that specific page and not your whole site) is minty fresh according to Google and your competition's pages presented in the Google SERP, seemingly not (at least today).

It also means, that for a couple of days, Google will take your latest content into consideration (for SERPS) and also show this latest content in cache.

[curlykarl]

I think the adwords campaign may of helped !

[vitaplease]

I think the adwords campaign may of helped !

I think not! :)

Google is supposed to have a chinese wall between the adwords department and the algo ranking minty fresh department. I wish it were the case, I would be mintier than minty, freshness all over.

[JonnyWales]

"It also means, that for a couple of days, Google will take your latest content into consideration (for SERPS) and also show this latest content in cache."

When I use KEYWORD1 KEYWORD2 KEYWORD3 then the minty fresh date of 6-Oct 2002 is shown in the SERP. Using KEYWORD1 KEYWORD2 (my main keyword) this isn't the case; although in both instances it is the same page being delivered.

The first example with the fresh date also includes a snippet of text from my site which is current, whereas the second example is using one which was relaced several weeks ago.

Althogh I regularly see fresh dates this doesn't appear to influence the position of my site as determined once a month.

My site has dissapeared today from WWW2 for the 2-word keyword, although for the same keyword is still appearing dismally low in www. Is this absence a sign that it will reappear soon with a fresh date and massive boost up the list ..... :) :)