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[Tim here] Folks might notice that the article is once again find-able. Being 2 links from the top of Hacker News will do that…
by timbray 9y ago
[Tim here] Folks might notice that the article is once again find-able. Being 2 links from the top of Hacker News will do that…
- hasenj 9y agoIt could be that "the last time someone linked to this page" timestamp contributes to the page's rank. If no one linked to a page in a very long time, Google will probably consider it _less relevant_.
- fixermark 9y agoOr the dataset outage was temporary. Remember, it's a distributed data corpus.
- londons_explore 9y agoThis needs more attention. The rarest pages are probably not very redundantly stored. Sometimes the datacenter your search query lands in might not have a copy of the necessary page. Now they have to decide if they delay the entire search query to remotely query another datacenter, or not. I would guess returning the results early is nearly always more important than returning a result which is so rare it has never been clicked in the past decade.