Re: 'Age' for webpages

Merin Tresa Willy wrote:
> Is a third dimension - 'age' necessary for webpages? Will its inclusion 
> help search engines and the like, to retrieve pages containing 
> up-to-date data?

The web is made of resources of many types, not just HTML pages.  They 
already have age meta-data, although this is sometimes mis-handled.  It 
is in the form of the HTTP: Last-Modified: header.  It is already usable 
in Google searches.

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