# Google Search Results Outdated? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 24, 2013, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-search-results-outdated/672095 "2013-10-24T08:44:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-search-results-outdated/672095/1 "2013-10-24T08:44:57Z")
No problems with the SDMB recently, but I’ve noticed something interesting. If you search the SDMB on Google, it’ll give results and tell you how many posts the thread has. But, the reported number of posts is less than the actual - so Google seems to be reporting outdated results. This isn’t because the threads are newly updated - I searched for site:boards.straightdope.com lion vs tiger, and the top hit says there are 51 posts, but the actual [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=661555&page=7) has 305 posts. Is this intended behaviour? If the theory that the board problems were caused by indexing were true, could indexing have been stopped, both preventing the problems and leading to outdated results? ---
**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-search-results-outdated/672095/2 "2013-10-24T13:06:57Z")
According to Google, [their crawl rate frequency for a particular site is based on a number of things](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/34439?hl=en), the details of which they don’t appear to want to specify. I also found pages on the web that discussed ways to increase Google’s crawl rate on your website, if that’s you goal. Google’s support site explains only how to lower their crawl rate over your site (you may want to do that if the access pipe to your site is slow and you’re being overwhelmed by Goggle’s crawl robots). How did I find this information? I Googled it, of course. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-search-results-outdated/672095/3 "2013-10-25T03:11:49Z")
It’s one thing to reduce the crawl rate, but having results updated more than a year ago? ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-search-results-outdated/672095/4 "2013-10-26T01:42:15Z")
The default number of posts per page is 50. Google seems to just report the number on the first page, and has some bug where it reports one more than the actual number (on any thread, not just ones with 50+).