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Web Crawler Latency Experiment
- etaioinshrdlu 6y agoAlso note that Google doesn't index everything they crawl.
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoTL;DR: new keyword (fictional word) got indexed in 6 days, after containing page got an inbound link.
- mattowen_uk 6y agoDid it need a TL;DR ?! The whole article is only 288 words.
- artembugara 6y agoTL;DR: 6
- arghwhat 6y agoDR.
- carstenhag 6y agoAlso, this is a blog post of a 3rd party and not a Google blog post (which is what I expected)
- pknerd 6y agowhat if someone explicitly request the indexing of the page right after the change, will it take similar time?
- tyingq 6y agoEffEyeEnDeeEmEe To see if HN will eventually outrank the site for that search term.
- oefrha 6y agoOr you can just check indexing status on the Google Search Console.
- amelius 6y agoInteresting experiment, but in this form it doesn't give a lot of information. E.g. what if the crawler was at 90% of its crawlspace when the word was added (and the website happened to be in the remaining 10%)? Also, like the author says, N=1.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoPluharrqn Whuldaggr