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**jeffmcsheff** · 05-24-2006, 04:21 AM

Does anyone know what the date means after irls in googles search results :

www.firstchoice.co.uk/ - 80k - 22 May 2006

only on a few does a date appear next to url under the result , what does this mean? anyone know?

**chrishirst** · 05-24-2006, 05:05 AM

it's the date the page was most recently indexed

It only appears for a short time around 48 hrs max

**jeffmcsheff** · 05-24-2006, 06:26 AM

indexed and cahced ? i thought that but when i check cache some differ to the date?

**chrishirst** · 05-24-2006, 08:55 AM

not cached just indexed

the cache date may be coming from a different datacentre

**crush123** · 05-26-2006, 02:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeffmcsheff

only on a few does a date appear next to url under the result , what does this mean? anyone know?

date appears only after some results.
i think it is because, search engines maynot have crawled all the sites displayed in the results recently. it shows the date for those sites which it has crawled recently.