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Likewise, I constantly find that google won't turn up mailing lists posts and forum posts even when I have a fragment to search for exactly. Some investigation

by nullc 5y ago

Likewise, I constantly find that google won't turn up mailing lists posts and forum posts even when I have a fragment to search for exactly. Some investigation seemed to suggest they were hard excluding any page which hadn't changed in ~5 years. I have to wonder if the poor behavior from google doesn't come from automatically a/b testing behavior changes against advertising revenue. Up to the point that you make users give up completely giving worse results will result in more search traffic...

r721 5y ago
>Some investigation seemed to suggest they were hard excluding any page which hadn't changed in ~5 years. I had another hypothesis: that they exclude pages which have no backlinks from other websites, and at the same time are hard to reach from front page of the website they are on. It seems old unpopular mailing lists posts and forum posts are exactly like that.