Google has tried using news archives to feed its content and indexing machine.

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The worst culprit: indexing content.

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How well would Google do without all the free editorial content which it is indexing I wonder?

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If your site has 10, 000 pages and only 1, 000 are indexed, your site may have barriers to indexation, or may not be authoritative enough for engines to consider indexing the content worthwhile.

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We completed our Caffeine web indexing system last year, which allows us to crawl and index the web for fresh content quickly on an enormous scale.

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