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This is a nice theory, but Google manages to keep step if new material is produced. Gabor Szabo's tutorial series is really very new, but is the fourth result.
by Mithaldu 15y ago
This is a nice theory, but Google manages to keep step if new material is produced. Gabor Szabo's tutorial series is really very new, but is the fourth result. The problem is that there is not enough up-to-date material connected with the term "perl tutorial".
- alex_c 15y agoYes and no. I obviously don't know that many details about Google's ranking algorithms, but content age and incoming links play a big role. This plays against content freshness and rate at which new incoming links are added. I suspect Google uses more or less the same algorithm for general content and for tech documentation. The difference is, general content - news, discussions, fiction, etc. - rarely loses relevancy, it can only be supplanted by newer, more relevant content over time. This happens for documentation, but it takes time - and at any given time you end up with a hodgepodge of content for various versions. There's also no foolproof way to search for content for a specific version - this would go a long way towards fixing the problem. The closest solution is restricting the search results by date, I often have to do that.