Freshness of search engines

[Allergic]

Freshness of search engines
This is only valid for the front page. Some SE does not crawl very deep each time they make a update.

Google : 27 sept
Excite : 24 sept
Webcrawler : 24 sept
Yahoo.ca : 24 sept
Alltheweb : 19 sept
Lycos : 19 sept
Altavista : 1 jul
Askjeeves :29 may
Teoma : 29 may
Wisenut :10 may
Hotbot : 24 feb
Looksmart : NS
Yahoo : NS
Overture : NF

NL= Not Shown because the SERP strip the title tag from the results
NF= Not found. Weard !

How I got thoses results? Simply by searching a big news weekly magazine site who as a automatic include of date and time in their title tag.

[mack]

Nice research.

Why not repeat the same search every week for a coumple of months and see how the freshness of the engines averages out :)

[Allergic]

I got thoses one for the 30 oct. 2001 :

Google :28 oct
Hotbot : 28 oct
Overture : 28 oct
Looksmart ( inktomi) : 28 oct
Lycos : 5 oct
Alltheweb : 5 oct
Wisenut : 28 jul
Askjeeves : 27 jul
Excite :22 may
Webcrawler : 22 may
Altavista : 11 apr

[mack]

what could be usefull was...

Average days till refresh for different pageranks :)