It seems that Google is forgetting the old web
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It seems that Google is forgetting the old web
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Re: It seems that Google is forgetting the old web
#2Google Scholar started to forget articles https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19599365
Re: It seems that Google is forgetting the old web
#3Gotta make way for the new spam.
Re: It seems that Google is forgetting the old web
#4I have a site that includes lots of older content. I checked the first page that came to mind (published in 2005) and it still shows up on the first page of Google results for the obvious search terms. So it certainly isn't as clear-cut as 'everything older than 10 years is not in the index'.
update checked another circa 2003. It's also on the first page of search results for a search on its title.
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#5Google is pretty much useless for anything older than a few years, as well as for many less popular topics. I can't even remember how many times Google decided to drop a crucial word in my query to show me something, anything, instead of admitting it pulled a blank. Instead of playing the endless game of "intitle: filetype: inurl:" just use something else (DDG maybe).
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#6For better or worse, Google is very explicitly not a card catalog though. One might disagree about how Google determines relevance--and the criteria are opaque. But, in any case, it's quite different from a card catalog which, with the caveat that the work in question must be part of the library's curated collection, is completely non-judgmental about the relative importance of a given item.
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#7I have noticed that searching for exact quotes seems to have been broken on Google for a few years. But only minimally broken. And I've had no idea how to reason with it. This article completely corresponds with problems I've encountered with searching for results on StackOverflow or software documentation sites; it's especially perplexing that "site:..." combined with exact quotes does not work for many cases.
Google certainly doesn't seem to value feedback at all. It's practically impossible to get in touch with a human to ask for help and Google's feedback forms have always felt like a black hole.
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#8Re: It seems that Google is forgetting the old web
#9> But this only makes bigger the problem of what to remember, what to forget and above all who and how should remember and forget.
And today, if the big search engines decide something will (no longer) be indexed, they can make it effectively unreachable.
Re: It seems that Google is forgetting the old web
#10Can we add (2018) to the title?