Script to check title and description changes in SERP of Google.com

[htusco]

Hi,

Hope anyone can help me out on this issue.

I want to know exactly WHEN the title and description of my website are updated in the search engine ranking results by Google. From time to time I change the title and description for testing purposes and I want to AUTOMATICALLY know by the hour when they're updated by Google. Checking every hour the first page of Google.com will do. It's not about the ranking but only about the changing of title and description so that I know how often Google will refresh it's cache.

Is there an existing service or a script available to automate this. Right now I check Google.com by hand to see if there's a change in title and description but it sometimes takes over a week and it tires me :).
Hope you can help me find a solution for my issue.

A big thanks on beforehand,
Anne Maria

[Readie]

Welcome to Webmaster World Anne :)

[code.google.com...]

From a skim-read of that it seems you can get an XML feed of a Google search. Just cron a PHP file to check it every hour or so, and store the values in a database, if the new is different from the old, send an E-mail.

Note: I suggest using the

site:example.com

Functionality of a Google search for this

[edited by: Readie at 11:41 pm (utc) on Mar 25, 2010]

[mack]

You might want to think about using the Google api.

Mack.

[htusco]

Guys,

Thanks for your help.
I'm a total script geek, so I'm looking for a ready-steady-go solution.

Thanks,
Anne Maria