Re: Websearch: ranking recent articles higher (was: Bandwidth-hungry services burden the internet)

Dmitry Alexandrov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.gnu.discuss
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Akira Urushibata <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28 May 2020 Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
>> "Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> It is fairly well-known that Google ranks newer material above older material.  Historic areas of the web are basically in a black hole as far as the Google search is concerned.
>>>
>>> And since many people reach for the Google search engine without even thinking there might be alternatives, those areas of the web basically don't exist.
>>
>> That is, there are some websearch providers that do not rank new and updated articles higher?  Why do not they, I wonder?  It looks like a pretty sane choice.
>
> Other conditions being equal, a websearch will rank a newer document above an older one.  But the other conditions are never equal.

Yes-yes, sure.  My question was rather about those ‘alternatives’, mentioned by @[email protected], that treat dusty areas of the web better.
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