Google Freshness Algorithm to Affect 35% Searches
Different searches have different freshness needs. This algorithmic improvement is designed to better understand how to differentiate between these kinds of searches and the level of freshness you need, and make sure you get the most up to the minute answers.In today’s blog post titled “Giving you fresher, more recent search results”, Amit Singhal explains Google’s latest efforts towards preferential treatment of certain types of QDF (Query Deserves Freshness) based search queries. Google has been criticised in the past that their freshness algorithm has not really managed to catch up to a true real-time stream of news and events and are constantly trying to invent different ways of providing fresh and relevant content to users. This time they promise better user experience.
What types of search queries are affected?
- Recent events or hot topics.
- Regularly recurring events.
- Frequent updates.
Tested by Dejan SEO Team
According to our tests on QDF relevant domains it’s evident that Google still fails to catch the incrementally increasing content in it’s index and cache. We expected rapid re-indexation and cache updates with this algorithm update. So far no luck. Our conclusion is that this update is not really about speed or frequency but more to do with selection and determining what is to be seen in SERPs and when.
Test Update: Three days after the initial test Google still shows the old version of the page in cache. When we search for content on the “missing parts” from the cache they do come up in search results which means that they are in index and only missing from cache.
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