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The "cached" link

         

Vis3R

11:12 am on Feb 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Hello,
I was wondering, when you click the "cached" link near your website's link in the search engines like yahoo, google, etc... Is the website cache the one the search engine currently uses for ranking you? .. i mean, if i updated the website ... and in the "cached" link it still shows the old one, does this mean that the search engine don't use my new site yet to rank it (a.k.a. my new site wasn't crawled yet by the spider)?

Brett_Tabke

6:15 am on Mar 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

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In general - the cached page is what went into the current index. But se's have in the past used older cached pages for the indexing (not currently the case). They would often spider for a cached page, faster then they would generate a new index.