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Reality is much more complex than that. Google's index has been tiered for many years, see e.g. https://search.googleblog.com/2012/05/search-quality-highlights
by puzzle 10y ago
Reality is much more complex than that. Google's index has been tiered for many years, see e.g.
https://search.googleblog.com/2012/05/search-quality-highlights-53-changes.html https://search.googleblog.com/2012/05/search-quality-highlig...
• New index tier. [launch codename "cantina", project codename "Indexing"] We keep our index in “tiers” where different documents are indexed at different rates depending on how relevant they are likely to be to users. This month we introduced an additional indexing tier to support continued comprehensiveness in search results.
- ceph_ 10y agoThis just means how often they scrape a site. Reddit gets scanned more often for changes than someone's personal website that only gets a few hits. You can test this. Posts on Reddit show up in search in minutes.
- puzzle 10y agoIt's not just a matter of freshness. They are also served by different backends with different trade-offs.