3 ms·
The interesting thing to know would be how much more efficient a push-based indexing approach would be instead of the current pull-based model. If frequently up
by anonymousDan 16y ago
The interesting thing to know would be how much more efficient a push-based indexing approach would be instead of the current pull-based model. If frequently updated sites could push change notifications to google it would solve this problem. However, I'm not sure how google could trust such sites not to overload its own servers.
- Zakuzaa 16y agoSitemaps?
- mryall 16y agoYeah, Google supports the sitemaps standard but that doesn't really cater for content as dynamic as Stack Overflow's. The last-updated format is a day rather than a timestamp, for example, making it useless for very-frequently updated content. http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php
- gregable 16y agoThis is true, but the big win is being able to cull out a list of URLs that have not been updated and thus do not need recrawling.