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The google filter means modified on the last 2 weeeks, and dynamic pages have related posts and other part of the pages that change, so those filters are not go

by joking 6y ago

The google filter means modified on the last 2 weeeks, and dynamic pages have related posts and other part of the pages that change, so those filters are not going to work well on something like Reddit.

epanchin 6y ago
Google should rely on a last modified date supplied by an author, and penalise sites that change it without actual changes to the content. Or alternatively, improve their algorithm for detecting page changes. Somehow it should be improved, as it’s a useful feature.
blisseyGo 6y ago
I am fairly certain this feature used to work well earlier last year. It broke sometime in summer last year as I even made a post on Reddit asking if this was a new bug. Unless the redesign of Reddit broke this somehow? But as far as I know, this has broken for other sites too. And Reddit redesign is over 2 years old now.
fauigerzigerk 6y ago
I find this sort of issue very encouraging. You sometimes think, how am I ever going to compete with someone like Google? They can hire more PhDs per day than I can write lines of code. And then this. An unsolved problem that they could have solved 20 years ago - recognising that pages are not necessarily one atomic unit and that different parts can be updated at different times. Or more generally that different types of websites require slightly different approaches to search. It's not a trivial problem if you think about it. But for a search company to get this completely wrong even for a global top 100 discussion forum requires a severe lack of incentives. And that's where I get the sinking feeling that I shouldn't be encouraged by Google's failure at all, because those incentives are difficult to fix for anyone. I'm pessimistic about Ramaswamy's approach. Putting a paid ad blocker on Bing isn't going to fix this.
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IAmGraydon 6y ago
This. It used to go by the date the Reddit thread was created, but now they’re going by modifications, which makes the timeframe useless. Unfortunately, Reddit’s built-in search is also lacking.
adfgininio 6y ago
Reddit is rank 20 on Alexa. They could make it a special case.
bananaface 6y ago
I mean, that's why it's broken - but it's still broken. It doesn't filter pages based on when the relevant content was added.

by joking 6y ago

epanchin 6y ago

Google should rely on a last modified date supplied by an author, and penalise sites that change it without actual changes to the content. Or alternatively, improve their algorithm for detecting page changes. Somehow it should be improved, as it’s a useful feature.

blisseyGo 6y ago

I am fairly certain this feature used to work well earlier last year. It broke sometime in summer last year as I even made a post on Reddit asking if this was a new bug. Unless the redesign of Reddit broke this somehow? But as far as I know, this has broken for other sites too. And Reddit redesign is over 2 years old now.

fauigerzigerk 6y ago

I find this sort of issue very encouraging. You sometimes think, how am I ever going to compete with someone like Google? They can hire more PhDs per day than I can write lines of code. And then this. An unsolved problem that they could have solved 20 years ago - recognising that pages are not necessarily one atomic unit and that different parts can be updated at different times. Or more generally that different types of websites require slightly different approaches to search. It's not a trivial problem if you think about it. But for a search company to get this completely wrong even for a global top 100 discussion forum requires a severe lack of incentives. And that's where I get the sinking feeling that I shouldn't be encouraged by Google's failure at all, because those incentives are difficult to fix for anyone. I'm pessimistic about Ramaswamy's approach. Putting a paid ad blocker on Bing isn't going to fix this.

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IAmGraydon 6y ago

This. It used to go by the date the Reddit thread was created, but now they’re going by modifications, which makes the timeframe useless. Unfortunately, Reddit’s built-in search is also lacking.

adfgininio 6y ago

Reddit is rank 20 on Alexa. They could make it a special case.

bananaface 6y ago

I mean, that's why it's broken - but it's still broken. It doesn't filter pages based on when the relevant content was added.