What is the difference between a Google Index and a Cache?

[Sibyl Trish]

I know that Google produce results by keeping indexes of webpages, but how do these differ from their cache . Does Google have an Index AND a cache?

 

[hunterjordan]

Hi,

The two concepts are closely related. Indexing is often a result of crawling. Crawling is what the Google bot must do in order to index the pages of your website.

 

[nikki]

Google Cache:- Google takes a snapshot of each page examined as it crawls the web and caches these as a back-up in case the original page is unavailable. If you click on the "Cached" link, you will see the web page as it looked when Google indexed it. The cached content is the content Google uses to judge whether this page is a relevant match for your query.

Google Index: Google creates the index and the database of documents that it accesses when processing a query that user enter in the search engine.

 

[Danielnash]

Hi,

The two concepts are closely related. Indexing is often a result of crawling. Crawling is what the Google bot must do in order to index the pages of your website.

yes dear, I am agree with your thougt, when google crawler visit a website it keep a record of these website in his database centre, means that we can say that this site is google indexed

 

[jvmills]

Google keeps a cache of the page as it looked when it last crawled it. This is part of what it uses when deciding where to rank your page. This is the record of your page that Google keeps. It may not tally up with the current version, but google periodically updates it cached copy. How often it does this is based on a number of factors.

It will serve up up the current page to the user who clicks through.

 

[charlhussey]

Index is the process that you got your pages stored by google. Indexation is simply related on relevant search engine index.It is nothing but getting optimum pages in whatever the search engine.The variation of ranking is the effect of Indexation.

 

[atco123]

differences

The index is a types of data base which keeps many URL link on specific keywords and this is occurred after cache. So cache is a previous step before indexing of a web page.

 

[emilyl]

Google Indexing is related to the inner search of googles database and cache will take the snapshot of the page at that time.