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> If I crawl your site today, encounter article A, and crawl it again in a year and again encounter article A, I am sure that article A is a year old (Well, tec
by jabradoodle 3y ago
> If I crawl your site today, encounter article A, and crawl it again in a year and again encounter article A, I am sure that article A is a year old (Well, techcnically, what I am certain of, is that I encountered the exact same article two times a year apart). You cannot game that.
And what if I change a tiny amount of the article, or post it on a second domain I own? Do you think you can match up all the near duplicates at the scale of the internet?
- NL807 3y agoPerhaps that's ok, because it's about persistence of information, not where it lives. I suppose you could view this as longer some information lives somewhere (doesn't matter where) the higher ranking it gets. If that information gets relocated, not a problem, it was seen somewhere else before, therefore it could be still regarded as high ranking.
- jabradoodle 3y agoThat is my point, unless the content is identical, any tiny change and I don't see how your going to know it is the same page as another when you have billions/trillions of pages to compare against. I also don't think this makes sense on a fundamental level, if I write some excellent content it shouldn't be harder to find because I wrote it recently. We would be making it harder for new entrants and encouraging people to rush out low quality content/ even report on things before they happen and delete the incorrect guesses later (not that the current system isn't full of perverse incentives.)