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One of the paragraphs: "Even Google Search, their flagship product, stopped focusing on the history of the web. In 2011, Google removed the Timeline view letti
by lettergram 12y ago
One of the paragraphs:
"Even Google Search, their flagship product, stopped focusing on the history of the web. In 2011, Google removed the Timeline view letting users filter search results by date, while a series of major changes to their search ranking algorithm increasingly favored freshness over older pages from established sources. (To the detriment of some.)"
I don't know if this is what they mean, but I can search by date just fine:
http://imgur.com/e1tEq4M http://imgur.com/e1tEq4M
Perhaps it's just not as clear of a view?
Overall, I agree with the article, but we have the internet archive for the internet, perhaps it's time for another organization for everything else. I am sure there are those organizations, but they don't seem all that large or effective.
- narcissus 12y agoI think the difference is that the date search is for finding stuff that was originally posted / crawled in that date range. (I believe) the original comment was regarding searching some HTML, for example, as it was at that date. That is to say: if you had a page that changed over time, you would be able to search for that page as it existed in a particular date range, not just searching for a page that was posted / first crawled in that range.