At the time of writing this (late November 2006) I am about 2 weeks into this “big Google experiment”. If I understand the help Google are giving me with their keywords list then I should use these keywords in this site because that’s what Google think should or would be expected to be found in a site like this.
This is fine with me because I would be creating articles on each of these at one point, but I wasn’t necessarily going to do it very soon or in order they suggest.
So why are you reading this?
It's possible you have arrived at this page after having searched for the terms using Google. As Google is the first search engine I’ve ever tried to understand I'm sure I have a few of the marketing "features" it has to learn about, mind you, when you think of it, it’s only a Web Application with a relational database after all, so how complicated can that be?
So one last useful point, Google reckon they will check back once a week and see what’s new here, so hopefully you’ll find some new stuff I’ve written when you search for it. Well to be precise you’ll find it if you search using the terms, i.e. the words you use matches the article, its title etc. That's after all why you’re here reading this page. But here’s the point, this page seem to disappear from your search results for one simple reason. So if I make any changes, updates etc it appears at some point after it will be dropped from the Google cache.
I know that because I made some changes to a page of mine that did come up number one in the Google search results because I searched on exactly what the title was and came to the top answer in the results page. When I added a couple of extra line of text and some code 3 or so days later the page could not be found anywhere in the results.
This perfectly understandable and exactly what Google should do. If an item in Cache is not the same as the item you read from the Web before then it has change, you downgrade or destroy the item in cache. Obviously when you write .Net Code things happen a little quicker. The cache would be renewed immediately and serve up any further requests from the latest cached copy. It’s just that in Google’s case this cache only gets updated once a week.
For those how really want to stay tuned might if you add the word Webica at the end of your search you might find the page in some downstream proxy servers cache that Google also has stored in it’s own cache as a separate entity. I did and it worked for me.
The reason that happened was because I used Google’s Translator to determine what an article would be in Spanish, and so I created page that it then went on to cache, when I viewed this Spanish cached page it then translated it back into the original English,,,well not quite, the last bit still needs trained people to transpose.
written as an ASp.NET 2.0 Web Application