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New Freshness Showdown
So how old are those search engine databases? I've posted a new Freshness Showdown. Google, MSN Search, HotBot, and AltaVista all had pages indexed in the last day while AlltheWeb and GigaBlast had pages from 5 and 6 days back, respectively. The comparison looked at URLs, all of which are updated daily, and if the search engines would recrawl those URLs they would have the current days date. The analysis notes the most recent pages at each search engine, a rough idea of the general date of most of the rest of the records, and the oldest page found. On the other side, several search engines had some very old portions of their databases dating back six months, a year, and more.

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