Comments on: Minty Fresh Indexing

By: Beyond Content

Beyond Content — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:52:43 +0000

The recent Google hack to see real-time search results was very interesting. Although this article is from 2007, it shows how far things have come in a very short period!

By: Vample

Vample — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:30:43 +0000

My interest is in the technological perspective. How does Google manage to update their index so fast given there so many websites out there that need to be sorted out?
As a Google insider, perhaps you could give us some insight.

By: SleepEating

SleepEating — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:34:45 +0000

For the under half hour indexing, google has to love your blog so much for it to be indexed faster than your stomach can crash that apple. A track back into google’s indexing history says a lot about where we are headed

By: BobinOz

BobinOz — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:04:24 +0000

My blog (started Jan 09) was being indexed really fast, usually within the hour. Then in around the middle of May and for no reason I can see, it suddenly stopped. Since then my traffic has plummeted. Google Webmaster tools is reporting no problems whatsoever. My blog is all original content and I’ve spent five weeks trying to work out what has gone wrong. I am still clueless. Can anybody help?

By: Kees

Kees — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:37:25 +0000

Hi Matt,

This article is now news again!
At Google Zeitgeist 2009 Larry Page actually said that he always thougt Google needed to index the web every second to allow realtime search. And when he told his team they laughed and said that a couple of minutes should do. Larry said no, we need to index the web every second. He stated that now with twitter indexing realtime his team get’s the idea.

Google will be launching Google Wave and it has a feature where you see people typing the words.
So I guess this is what Larry means by realtime indexing.

By: raptorak

raptorak — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:07:59 +0000

This is a pretty cool thing to see, in terms of index speed, but how did you actually go about getting indexed that fast? My pages are taking 2+ weeks for most, but almost instant for others..

By: Ami

Ami — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:54:15 +0000

Great that that particular post was indexed so fast. But not all of us webmasters have the same experience online. The site you mentioned and that got a post indexed so quickly must be one that already has a lot of authority with the search engines and is therefore crawled frequently. The big question is what does it take to take a one man blog to such status

By: Roger Grant

Roger Grant — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:51:56 +0000

Matt, that’s good for everyone when Google updates their index more frequently. My experience with Google’s index rate on Blogger posts is that they are indexed within 30 minutes. That’s awesome! However, I have noticed an exception, that I would be interested in reading your comments about.
Here is the exception: When the blog filename is changed when using the “publish to FTP” option, Google seems to “forget” to do any subsequent indexing. In other words, if the initial blog file name is changed, and Google indexes it, what happens when additional posts are made using the new filename? For example:

http://www.mydomain.com/blog/initial_blog_filename.html
1 post was made on this filename, and then the initial file name was deleted.

http://www.mydomain.com/blog/revised_blog_filename.html
This new filename was created and 25 posts made on this filename

4 days later, only 1 of the 25 posts on the revised blog filename have been indexed

By: dimaks

dimaks — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:26:44 +0000

How about Google’s frequency or response time on post being updated or edited? How long does the re-indexing take place?

By: Rick NHS

Rick NHS — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:15:47 +0000

Thanks for the detailed explanation of how Google goes about indexing… I feel like I learned a little something!!