What does this means in google search results

When you search anything for Example Web hosting on google, you will see Date specified with result, does anyone what this means?

 

In this particular case, as you can easily guess that the search result is a Blog Post so date shown is the date when the page was last modified/ or posting is done.

 

I think it's either date of post or date when Google indexed that page. It is important if the searcher is looking for news, seeing that date means it might be the latest or the particular news on that date..

 

In my knowledge, it is a publication date of your article.

 

It's the lastest date in google cache for that page.

 

it's showing last update date ....

 

google cache updated date

 

No, it's not just Google cache update. This is Panda major update to promote updated information to higher tank in search result. You can see more in google blog:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-you-fresher-more-recent-search.html

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it's the date google indexed that particular post

 

Basically it means the date when your article was indexed by Google when its crawler came along to visit your site.