Show me one search engine that doesn't promote recent-ness. All the big internet-wide searches do, all the per-page social media search engines do as well.
And this seems like an annoying bug, not a feature. Internet is becoming more and more of an ephemeral place. That interesting news article you read few years ago? It's URL has probably changed twice, then it was deleted, and even if not, unless you remember the exact wording of the headline, you probably won't find it on Google as it will be buried under three pages of recent tweets that match your search query - tweets no one will care about or remember next week.
People do want to remember some things perfectly - that's why we invented writing, textbooks, diaries and libraries.
It's annoying as hell because Google promotes "freshness" over quality. You can get a very high position in Google by knocking off someone else's tech news story while removing half the facts and adding nothing of any consequence, as long as your do it quickly. This kind of blogspam also vanishes quickly, but only after the damage has been done.
Meanwhile anything that might actually be worth reading is somewhere around page 10...
Meanwhile anything that might actually be worth reading is somewhere around page 10...
...much like the way things were in 1997 with Google's predecessors. Funny how despite exponentially more layers of code running (with eons of iterative advances), it all still somehow comes full circle.
I feel like I keep seeing this all around. It seems that there's a point in the product after which any further optimization to "extract more value" actually degrades things. Comapnies need to learn when to stop messing with their product further and focus on something else.
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And this seems like an annoying bug, not a feature. Internet is becoming more and more of an ephemeral place. That interesting news article you read few years ago? It's URL has probably changed twice, then it was deleted, and even if not, unless you remember the exact wording of the headline, you probably won't find it on Google as it will be buried under three pages of recent tweets that match your search query - tweets no one will care about or remember next week.
People do want to remember some things perfectly - that's why we invented writing, textbooks, diaries and libraries.
It's annoying as hell because Google promotes "freshness" over quality. You can get a very high position in Google by knocking off someone else's tech news story while removing half the facts and adding nothing of any consequence, as long as your do it quickly. This kind of blogspam also vanishes quickly, but only after the damage has been done.
Meanwhile anything that might actually be worth reading is somewhere around page 10...
...much like the way things were in 1997 with Google's predecessors. Funny how despite exponentially more layers of code running (with eons of iterative advances), it all still somehow comes full circle.
It's an interesting observation that agrees with my experience as well.
I feel like I keep seeing this all around. It seems that there's a point in the product after which any further optimization to "extract more value" actually degrades things. Comapnies need to learn when to stop messing with their product further and focus on something else.