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That's because of SEO and perception reasons, I believe. It's intentional.
by searchableguy 4y ago
That's because of SEO and perception reasons, I believe. It's intentional.
- jl6 4y agoYou are correct - this is an attempt to appear fresh. But it is no excuse. It’s still an anti-user dark pattern.
- dgb23 4y agoFully agree. Also you can appear fresh regardless _if you are actually fresh_, simply by adding an review/update date.
- wrycoder 4y agoOr if you’re not, just use a cron to keep the dates fresh
- jrwoodruff 4y agoBut... then what's the point of a date at all? May as well not have one.
- wrycoder 4y agoI should have used /sarc The idea was to fool people and bots into thinking it was fresh!
- ratww 4y agoYep. It is an intention to appear fresh to Google, so that it can rank above websites that have better content but are using dates. Users be damned.