June 10, 2010 by Mark Isle
Earlier this week Google announced the completion of their brand new indexing system that they have named Caffeine.
Obviously not content with sitting on the sidelines while the world goes Apple crazy this week, Google have decided to announce an innovation of their own.
According to Google Caffeine will provide 50 percent fresher results from web searches than their last index, coupled with this it is also the biggest collection of web content ever offered by Google.
No matter what it is that the user is searching for from blog posts to news stories Google claim that it is much easier to find links to relevant content than it has been in the past.
Google decided to build this new search indexing system in order to help searchers find the latest and most relevant content and also as a way of ensuring that content published by publishers can be found almost instantly after the content has gone live.
The old Google index often had quite a substantial delay between when Google found a page and when they made it available for web users.
This was because the old index had several layers, some of them were refreshed at a faster rate than other but the main layer would only be updated every couple of weeks.
In order to refresh a layer of the old indexing system Google would have to analyse the entire web leading to this delay.
With the Caffeine update Google are able to analyse the web in smaller portions therefore allowing them to update the search index on a continuous basis, worldwide.
As new information and pages are found Google can now ass them straight to the index meaning that more up-to date info can be found no matter where or when it was published.
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