What is Google Caffeine?

Answered across 4 episodes of The Best SEO Podcast

The short answer

An unreleased Google update focused on improving indexing speed, accuracy, and comprehensiveness, with a public sandbox server where users can compare its results to the current Google index.

How experts on the show define it

An unreleased Google update focused on improving indexing speed, accuracy, and comprehensiveness, with a public sandbox server where users can compare its results to the current Google index.

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A Google update released June 8th, according to the hosts, expected to significantly affect the speed of indexing and therefore how quickly pages appear in search results.

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A 2010 Google indexing infrastructure change, not an algorithm update, that gave Google the ability to index over 100,000 gigabytes of content per day using 100 million gigabytes of storage.

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A Google indexing update described in the episode as a glutton for content that indexes content faster, gives weight to fresh and relevant content, and reads content contextually.

From Content Case Study, Facebook and SEO, Responding to Google Places - Unknown Secrets of SEO E-Webstyle Number 70

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