In a late Tuesday blog post, Internet search giant Google announced the release of Caffeine – the much-awaited update to the company Web indexing technology. The update, as per the company, will provide more up-to-date, or closer to “live,” search results vis-à-vis Google’s earlier system.

Google commenced the testing of Caffeine in August last year; when it said that the updated indexing system will be one of the most notable changes that the company has made, since 2006, to the fundamental technology that has been crawling the Internet and ranking Web pages.

In a further elaboration, Matt Cutts, chief of Google’s webspam team, said that earlier Google would index a portion of the Web that it would crawl each night, and push it out in its results. However, Caffeine will help Google immediately index any new information that it finds while crawling the Web, and serve it “seconds later.”

Moreover, along with serving “fresher” results, Caffeine will “massively increase Google’s ability to “scale up.”

Talking about the advantages that Caffeine will bring along, the Google blog post said: “Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered. Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.”