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FoxyFish
FoxyFish

Reputation: 892

Google search results shows outdated site content?

Google search results is showing an old outdated version of my site, some of which is no longer there or different page urls.

Do they automatically update their search index or do I have to do something to get it updated?

If it is automatic, how long does it usually take?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5697

Answers (2)

Kristian
Kristian

Reputation: 21810

Do they automatically update their search index or do i have to do something to get it updated? ... Plus if it is auto, how long does it usually take?

Historically, google was using their home-brewed mapReduce functionality to rebuild their search engine every few days, which caused this type of behavior. It was / is automatic, meaning you dont have to do anything special to cause google to update their index of your site, in particular.

However, according to a new wired article about their "Colossus" product, they're no longer doing that intervalled mapReduce, and now are favoring a more real-time index rebuilding algorithm.

With that said, the jury is still out on how quickly one can reliably expect their site to be re-indexed. You may just wait and see, and take a benchmark about it once google does update your content. Then publish an article about it... you'll be famous. ;)

Upvotes: 3

james31rock
james31rock

Reputation: 2705

You should be able to ask google to re-index your site.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

  1. sign in
  2. click on your site (if not added then go through the process to add your site)
  3. click "add/test sitemap"
  4. give the url of the new sitemap
  5. click submit sitemap

Upvotes: 3

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