Re: Websearch: ranking recent articles higher (was: Bandwidth-hungry services burden the internet)
Dmitry Alexandrov <[email protected]>
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[Please note: Something happened with your MUA and your letter had fallen off the thread.] 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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