New Freshness Showdown

I have posted new results from a comparison of the freshness of the search engines' underlying databases. With data from May 17, there is a wider spread of crawling this time. AltaVista had the most recent page, from the same day as the comparison, followed by Inktomi and AlltheWeb. Google's most recent page was two days old. And althought AlltheWeb still has a few extremely old pages and even Google has some stragglers from over five months ago, most of the records show that the crawling was primarily from roughly one month before the comparison. Note that all the results used for this comparison all linked to pages with the current day's date.