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Re: Google Memory Loss

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Post by ins0 »

hayksaakian wrote: post #48
ins0 wrote: post #46

I'm confused, did i do something wrong or why can i find the referred article just fine on google, just by searching the keywords? https://imgur.com/a/szBcB

becuase the OP wrote an article that links to these things, and caused them to be re-indexed. It's not purely a function of 'date published' it is also about frequency of access

Ah true that makes sense, thanks for clarifying my confusion

Re: Google Memory Loss

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Post by rootw0rm »

beamatronic wrote: post #38
tomc1985 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like they don't index the full corpus

Or there is a time bound or other resource bound that they are willing to expend under the current circumstances ( are you a free user? Paid user? Internal user? Mobile? Web? Etc )

yup. this.

Re: Google Memory Loss

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Post by cptskippy »

ohazi wrote: post #17

I've convinced myself that this happens in gmail / hangouts history search too. It'll very confidently tell you that here are the only six results for your search term going back to the beginning of time, but if you go and manually dig up something that you know is there from ten years ago, then all of a sudden there are seven results the next time you search for the same term. I haven't done this methodically, and I…

This definitely happens. I have 1 email that is about 5 years old that I reference once or twice a year, often enough that it is a suggested search term. Recently Gmail has been unable to find it and I restored to starring it. It is literally the only starred email I have but I can no longer search for it.

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Post by astura »

ins0 wrote: post #46

I'm confused, did i do something wrong or why can i find the referred article just fine on google, just by searching the keywords? https://imgur.com/a/szBcB

You can find it now because it's getting traffic again due to TFA. It's no longer "stale."

Re: Google Memory Loss

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Post by on_and_off »

S_A_P wrote: post #14
bombita wrote: post #5

https://www.google.com/search?q="we+were+watching+the+Democr... I can find the article this person is referring just by looking at a string of it. So the article _is_ indexed. Not sure what he is referring to.

Its possible that by linking to his article he triggered a re-indexing of it? I wont pretend to know how google works but seems plausible to me.

I can find the article just by searching 'tim bray rock roll', so for one reason or another, the article is now indexed.
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