I was doing a random search on Google yesterday and noticed something funny.  At the top of the search results were results with time stamps!  I did some searching after that and found out that it is something that Google has been working on to give the most relevant, up-to-date results. 

This is the first time I noticed or came across time stamps and it made me think about the implications this could have for SEO purposes.

1. Are more highly updated webpages really more relevant for user searches?  I’m inclined to say no but I think it might make sense to have a separate section of the search results that is time related.
2. Would news sites and blogs that often have the most refreshed content be even more valuable? Depending on the impact of timeliness on Google’s search formula, these sites would obviously become more valuable. 
3. Google can’t crawl every webpage every minute to find the most current content so how could you ensure your site is part of Google’s spidering more often? I think the goal for Google still remains the same.  If you are relevant for search results, this issue will go away.  But of course, there will be people who find ways to manipulate the system in order to get ahead on page rankings.

Very interesting stuff…