I also hope that the effect that "freshness" has on the total ranking of a result is not high. There are huge swaths of the internet and subjects in which "fre

I also hope that the effect that "freshness" has on the total ranking of a result is not high. There are huge swaths of the internet and subjects in which "freshness" would not improve quality. Changes of this blanket nature are a result of some form of the "Valley Effect" or new is always better. IMO. The example used, the Olympics, is an outlyer comparison in which this specific change is overly relevant.