# How often does Google index this site? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 12, 2013, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-does-google-index-this-site/650065 "2013-02-12T05:17:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-does-google-index-this-site/650065/1 "2013-02-12T05:17:29Z")
Four minutes ago someone replied to a thread I’m subscribed to. I googled something related to the thread - and found that very reply among the search results. What the hell? Does Google really crawl every thread on this site that often? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-does-google-index-this-site/650065/2 "2013-02-12T05:43:14Z")
yes ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-does-google-index-this-site/650065/3 "2013-02-12T05:58:57Z")
Makes sense. This site is very old and very well linked to. It’s probably been flagged for constant update. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-does-google-index-this-site/650065/4 "2013-02-12T06:02:02Z")
In really poorly populated boards that show lists of everyone currently viewing the forum/thread at the bottom, you’ll basically never see a page without a few “anonymous” viewers that are really web-crawlers of various companies (some of the boards even recognize and tag them as things like web-spider). ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-does-google-index-this-site/650065/5 "2013-02-12T07:54:54Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > In really poorly populated boards that show lists of everyone currently viewing the forum/thread at the bottom, you’ll basically never see a page without a few “anonymous” viewers that are really web-crawlers of various companies (some of the boards even recognize and tag them as things like web-spider). Bah. Anonymous viewing? Give it ten years and I bet Googlebot will be actively answering all the GQs here. Fifteen and it’ll be having Great Debates with iBingazonhoo. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-does-google-index-this-site/650065/6 "2013-02-12T12:20:54Z")
I just googled “Four minutes ago someone replied to a thread I’m subscribed to. I googled something related to the thread - and found that very reply among the search results.” and got this thread. So, frequently. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-does-google-index-this-site/650065/7 "2013-02-12T12:32:25Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > iBingazonhoo. I like this. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-does-google-index-this-site/650065/8 "2013-02-12T12:34:39Z")
Heh. I just Googled, “I just googled “Four minutes ago someone replied to a thread I’m subscribed to. I googled something related to the thread - and found that very reply among the search results.” and got this thread.” And yes, I got leahcim’s post! ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-does-google-index-this-site/650065/9 "2013-02-12T12:35:01Z")
Since this is a question about our Board, I’ve moved it to ATMB. **samclem** , moderator ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-does-google-index-this-site/650065/10 "2013-02-12T12:35:55Z")
Every time somebody asks about a song and provides lyrics, I search on the lyrics and that very thread comes up at about number three in the results, mere minutes after it was created. I have learned not to get excited and erroneously think “Ooh, somebody else asked this question, I bet it has the answer in this thread” because I just end up in a loop.