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It does, though. The problem is that the most generally notable thing about a boring person who committed a serious crime 20 years ago is in fact the serious cr
by CobrastanJorji 9y ago
It does, though. The problem is that the most generally notable thing about a boring person who committed a serious crime 20 years ago is in fact the serious crime that they committed 20 years ago.
Put another way, if I put the name of my new neighbor into Google, the resulting webpage I would in fact most want to see as the result would definitely be the article on the murder they committed 20 years ago, even though they have a Facebook page that was updated 10 minutes ago. Facebook page can be result number 2.
If Google didn't show that result at all because it happened 20 years ago, and that person never did anything else notable more recently, I would consider Google to be a little broken.
- l9k 9y agoMost people didn't commit murder 20 years ago but may have had a car accident or organized a loud party with weed while in college. People change and your neighbor now has a family and lives quietly. It seems unfair the world should know him about his past mistakes
- dfox 9y agoThe same notability argument is still valid. It is not that search engines are broken, but the society which would view something that happened 20 years ago, while being the most notable fact about given person, as relevant for anything else than conversation-starter is broken.