Google showing different descriptions.

I've just done a search for a phrase and my page comes up no 3
with Google showing a title which was in the <title> tag over
a month ago.
Doing another search for a different phrase puts the same page
in no.3 but this time showing the correct title.
The cache is the same both times.
Is this something new? it opens up a great way of getting the same
page in multiple serps.

"T.J." <no1 (AT) here (DOT) invalid> wrote

I've just done a search for a phrase and my page comes up no 3
with Google showing a title which was in the <title> tag over
a month ago.
Doing another search for a different phrase puts the same page
in no.3 but this time showing the correct title.
The cache is the same both times.
Is this something new? it opens up a great way of getting the same
page in multiple serps.

Google does change the title and description. What is in the DMOZ for your
site? Google uses this for different SERPs. Right now Google uses the
description for the rag rug SERP from DMOZ for many of the sites listed, for
other SERP's the description that is in the META. When you do a search for
"Stacey's Simple Stuff" it will bring that as the title because that is what
is in the DMOZ.

Stacey

"Stacey" <stacey (AT) staceyssimplestuff (DOT) com> wrote

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I've just done a search for a phrase and my page comes up no 3
with Google showing a title which was in the <title> tag over
a month ago.
Doing another search for a different phrase puts the same page
in no.3 but this time showing the correct title.
The cache is the same both times.
Is this something new? it opens up a great way of getting the same
page in multiple serps.


Google does change the title and description. What is in the DMOZ for your
site? Google uses this for different SERPs. Right now Google uses the
description for the rag rug SERP from DMOZ for many of the sites listed,
for other SERP's the description that is in the META. When you do a search
for "Stacey's Simple Stuff" it will bring that as the title because that
is what is in the DMOZ.

Stacey

It's definitely not a DMOZ description, the page is only a few
months old and doesn't appear in any directories.
Have you ever had "Stacey's Simple Stuff" in your <title> tag?
It looks very much to me as though google saves caches of pages
when the title changes, if so, it could prove handy ;o)

"T.J." <no1 (AT) here (DOT) invalid> wrote

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I've just done a search for a phrase and my page comes up no 3
with Google showing a title which was in the <title> tag over
a month ago.
Doing another search for a different phrase puts the same page
in no.3 but this time showing the correct title.
The cache is the same both times.
Is this something new? it opens up a great way of getting the same
page in multiple serps.


Google does change the title and description. What is in the DMOZ for
your site? Google uses this for different SERPs. Right now Google uses
the description for the rag rug SERP from DMOZ for many of the sites
listed, for other SERP's the description that is in the META. When you do
a search for "Stacey's Simple Stuff" it will bring that as the title
because that is what is in the DMOZ.

Stacey


It's definitely not a DMOZ description, the page is only a few
months old and doesn't appear in any directories.
Have you ever had "Stacey's Simple Stuff" in your <title> tag?
It looks very much to me as though google saves caches of pages
when the title changes, if so, it could prove handy ;o)

Nope, not just "Stacey's Simple Stuff". But anyway, I knew Google does this
and thought I would bring it up. There are some times that Google does save
old caches. Say if it goes by your site and it is down it will bring up and
old cache.

Stacey

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I've just done a search for a phrase and my page comes up no 3
with Google showing a title which was in the <title> tag over
a month ago.
Doing another search for a different phrase puts the same page
in no.3 but this time showing the correct title.
The cache is the same both times.
Is this something new? it opens up a great way of getting the same
page in multiple serps.


Google does change the title and description. What is in the DMOZ for
your site? Google uses this for different SERPs. Right now Google uses
the description for the rag rug SERP from DMOZ for many of the sites
listed, for other SERP's the description that is in the META. When you
do a search for "Stacey's Simple Stuff" it will bring that as the title
because that is what is in the DMOZ.

Stacey


It's definitely not a DMOZ description, the page is only a few
months old and doesn't appear in any directories.
Have you ever had "Stacey's Simple Stuff" in your <title> tag?
It looks very much to me as though google saves caches of pages
when the title changes, if so, it could prove handy ;o)


Nope, not just "Stacey's Simple Stuff". But anyway, I knew Google does
this and thought I would bring it up. There are some times that Google
does save old caches. Say if it goes by your site and it is down it will
bring up and old cache.

Stacey

Any idea how long they keep multiple caches for?
I have pages that when you search for 1 target it returns
1 description and when you search another target it returns
another description.

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:52:30 +0200, T.J. <no1 (AT) here (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Any idea how long they keep multiple caches for?
I have pages that when you search for 1 target it returns
1 description and when you search another target it returns
another description.

Are you sure it is the same datacenter? Different datacenters
can be out of sync (or rather - they always are out of sync)
and they display slightly different results.

Best,
Borek
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program for pH calculations
CASC - Concentration and Solution Calculator
program for solution preparation and concentration conversions

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:02:27 +0200, Stacey <stacey (AT) staceyssimplestuff (DOT) com>
wrote:

Google does change the title and description. What is in the DMOZ for
your
site? Google uses this for different SERPs. Right now Google uses the
description for the rag rug SERP from DMOZ for many of the sites listed,
for
other SERP's the description that is in the META. When you do a search
for
"Stacey's Simple Stuff" it will bring that as the title because that is
what
is in the DMOZ.

GoogleGuy stated something they are 'trying different approaches' and the
descriptions shown can be changing.

Best,
Borek
--
http://www.chembuddy.com - chemical calculators for labs and education
BATE - Base Acid Titration and Equilibria
program for pH calculations
CASC - Concentration and Solution Calculator
program for solution preparation and concentration conversions

"Borek" <borek (AT) parts (DOT) bpp.to.com.remove.pl> wrote

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:52:30 +0200, T.J. <no1 (AT) here (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Any idea how long they keep multiple caches for?
I have pages that when you search for 1 target it returns
1 description and when you search another target it returns
another description.

Are you sure it is the same datacenter? Different datacenters
can be out of sync (or rather - they always are out of sync)
and they display slightly different results.

Best,
Borek

Definitely nothing to do with datacentres, I just tried it at
mcdar.net.
Google has 2 caches of the same page and returns either
of them depending on what search phrase is used.
I don't know how long they save the old cache for, but if this
is what they're doing I can see it being quite useful ;o)