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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.




It’s interesting that a search engine would choose to encode recency bias.


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.


For some things sure. For others, for example recipes, newer is not necessarily better.




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