Anyone else notice a global Google cache issue?

[AndyMacLean]

Im noticing a huge % of pages on my sites and those picked at random from Google searches, high traffic pages from big sites like booking.com have not been cached since 22nd Oct by Google. Anyone else noticed this or got insight on it?

Andy

[Shakur]

Hi Andy,

Yes I had noticed. Lately Google was not caching pages but it seems that since yesterday has returned to normal. At least with my pages.

[sureshchowdary]

Hi Andy,

I observed for few big sites like microsoft, amazon, ebay being crawled. Websites which don't have any content updates are not crawled from 22 Oct 2014. Just do an experiment by adding some new content to the websites and check.

[mdarvish]

Hi Andy

I'm also seeing this on one of our own sites, as well as a lot of other websites in our own sector. From what I can see in webmaster tools, there was a big drop in the crawl rate around 21st of October for a few days and then the crawl rate picked up to normal levels within a few days. However, looking at the cache date of the homepage as well as other category pages, the date of 20 to 22nd of October seem fixed. But, newly added pages are being indexed. This is strange to say the least!

Maz