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Old articles are clogging up search engines

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The internet used to be where you found the latest information. But it’s old enough that you could easily find info on 10-20 year old articles that are out of date and irrelevant

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doc@kbin.social
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I find it’s the opposite: engines are so biased toward new content that older but still useful (or crucial) results are buried. I feel like an archeologist some days, carefully digging through the strata to find ancient hidden treasure.

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Scrollone@feddit.it
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You make like Kagi. It’s a search engine that lets you - among other things - search old articles. It’s a paid service though (but they offer a free 100 queries trial)

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De_Narm@lemmy.world
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Any search engine I’ve ever used allowed me to filter for results from the past month/year/etc.

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entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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The real shower thought is that most people don’t know how to use advanced search settings anymore when it used to be common knowledge you needed to find anything even slightly niche

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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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Maybe they searched for “how to limit search results by date”, but the instructions they found were obsolete.

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Ashy@lemmy.wtf
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So set it to only display results from X past years.

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Worldtrident@lemm.ee
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I want more than Twitter results though.

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Baines@lemmy.world
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this is just a symptom, bigger issue is new data being behind walls

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Zippy@lemmy.world
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Worse, many articles do not have the year in the date. What the hell is up with that?

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ares35@kbin.social
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and many have a recent date on old, even totally obsolete, articles or posts.

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Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run
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I get entirely too annoyed about both cases.

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