View Full Version : Google Cache showing very old date.

eCommando
11-30-2004, 01:29 PM
I see a few pages on Google cache "as retrieved on Dec 31, 1969 23:59:59 GMT."

Any ideas?
serp
11-30-2004, 01:38 PM
I think that Google have few versions of cached pages. In Google Desktop tool is such thing...
eCommando
11-30-2004, 02:23 PM
Dec 31, 1969 ? I don't think Google even exist @ that time!
jocelyn
11-30-2004, 02:35 PM
For more input on this see : http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/thread4340.html
spatters11
11-30-2004, 02:37 PM
eCommando-

This was discussed a couple of weeks ago, http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/thread4340.html . Google obviously had some problem with a server(maybe a dead cmos battery). Whenever a Unix or Dos based OS system is on a server and it has lost it's memory or any of a number of other problems, the date reverts back to the beginning of time for Unix,(Dos is based on Unix, which would explain a Windows server doing the same thing). It made me do some searching and here is a good article about Unix and it's beginning of time: http://www.darwinsys.com/history/ancient.html

Hope this helps! :D
wlh
11-30-2004, 06:04 PM
I would have thought that this would have been fixed by now. You would think that an advanced company like google would be instantly notified of a bad battery... wheres their PC techs??
spatters11
11-30-2004, 06:13 PM
wlh,

I imagine that the pages still showing those old dates because of the problem a couple of weeks ago probably don't have the PR to get them crawled (cached) everyday. You know how some of your deeper pages are only crawled a couple of times a month. I would say that they have just not been refreshed since the problem occured, because I have seen many pages with new fresh dates since. :D
jocelyn
11-30-2004, 06:18 PM
[QUOTE=wlh]...google would be instantly notified of a bad battery... wheres their PC techs??[/QUOTE]
Maybe it's not a battery... some said it might be the unix 0 date... whatever it is it's just a little minor glitch thing.
smindsrt
11-30-2004, 06:37 PM
Didn't you all hear......


VINTAGE IS IN :cool:
serp
12-01-2004, 12:02 AM
Yes, Joc! This is the best version of this probl - The computer doing the cache thing must have had a bad onboard battery. So it loses the date and goes back to bios defaults. So when it does a job that it gives the date to, it gives that wrong date. Read the same thing months ago on seochat. Just a bad PC motherboard I think.

But what about this few times cache? Maybe somebody have something about it...?