Does anyone know what browser is used in Google Cache

I have recently re-coded my website and after being cached by google the page layout doesn't look how I want it.
I have already tested the pages in Firefox, IE 6, IE7, Opera and the site looks perfect.

Does anyone know what Google Cache uses for it's crawler or browser so i can test and work may around the display problem?

Kind Regards

 

It is a custom browser, media-improved version of Googlebot's browser.

Is your design standards-compliant? If it is, my guess is that it should display correctly.

 

BTW, why should you care about the cache?
Just curious.

I know that some people will only use cache if the site is down.

 

cached is made by google after all so it will go the way google want it to be. you can not relly control it i think.

 

"Google's browser used for it's crawler"... that isn't how it works. Google just stores your HTML exactly as it sees it. It then adds in the top portion when you view the cache. It must be something in that top portion breaking your layout... are you using absolute positioning, or are you positioning any elements via Javascript?

-Michael

 

Isn't the cached site still old version of your site? This could cause some differences in look - just wait for cache refresh.

 

The cached version is whatever version Google saw the last time it indexed your site.

 

The drop down menu at the top is using no javascript, just pure css in a relevent position.

 

How exactly is it broken?

When Google displays the cache of someones page, they add a div at the top, where they put information about the page. This div will push down the page. If things are positioned absolutely, then stuff will float on top of the div, making the page not look right. Is this what you are talking about?

This is the kind of page I am talking about:

http://72.14.209.104/search?sourcei...:en&q=cache:http://www.paydayadvancearmy.com/

-Michael

 

Oh i see. My page is in a relative position, so shouldn't be the case.

 

So... what is it that is broken then? May I ask what page it is, and what it is that is concerning you?

-Michael

 

It's on every page on the site. If you look at the drop down menu in the top right of the page it looks fine in IE6,7 Firefox, Opera, but when looked in Google, Msn, Yahoo cache it looks squashed and a mess.

Here is some screen shots:





Kind Regards

Gie

 

Ok, that's hardly a disaster really, it's just off slightly. Anyone who would know enough to even know that your cache was there would know that cache's are going to have differences in layout, so I really wouldn't worry about it that much.

If it really really bugs you though, I can write a routine to remove the Google information from the top of the page when someone views the cache, that should restore it. Not today though.

-Michael

 

Okay, thanks for all your help. No need to write a routine. Your help has been enough.