I think the entire point is that it shouldn't "help search engagement" if it's an older article that's been "updated for present year" just to game search results.
>cursory updates to the body of the text
Still pretty straightforward to algorithmically determine if this has happened.
Why would that be surprising? When people search for something, they tend to want more recent info, more recent coverage, more recently made lists, etc.
>cursory updates to the body of the text
Still pretty straightforward to algorithmically determine if this has happened.