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Your approach is "a website that irrevocably deletes itself once indexed by Google". What OP has done is "a website that irrevocably deletes itself once Google
by desdiv 12y ago
Your approach is "a website that irrevocably deletes itself once indexed by Google".
What OP has done is "a website that irrevocably deletes itself once Google decided to publicly reveal the fact that it indexed said website".
OP's approach has no way of knowing when the site was indexed. It's conceivable that Google indexed it on the very first day and decided not to share it publicly until 21 days later.
- BorisMelnik 12y agohah, good point for all intents and purposes (for most) indexed is when it appears in the search results
- lukeschlather 12y agoEven if the request that claims to be from Googlebot is actually the Googlebot (which it might not be,) that doesn't guarantee the site is indexed. It's impossible to know when the site is indexed without direct access to Google's index.
- nostrademons 12y agoTechnically, the former is when it is "crawled" and the latter is when it is "indexed". In practice, since 2010 these two events have generally been separated by minutes.
- tyrust 12y agoIf you really want to get "technical", then the first one is when the site is "crawled" and the latter is when it's "served". "Indexing" happens in-between the two.