Quoth The Googlebot, "304!"

September 5, 2006

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The latest news from Google Webmaster Central disclosed how the search engine's spider saves a webmaster from unnecessary bandwidth costs.

discussion of more details about the Googlebot and how it retrieves, or does not retrieve, a page from a web server. If a particular page causes the server to give Googlebot a 'Not Modified 304' response to an 'If-Modified-Since' query, the page will not be downloaded. "This reduces the bandwidth consumed on your web server," Fox wrote. Presently, Google's cache: As Google reindexes pages, the change from last retrieved to last accessed date will be made in the Google cache. This will take some time to accomplish considering the billions of pages Google maintains in its Bigtable index. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.

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