Funny that in the same day that Yahoo! releases it’s Search Subscriptions, which allows you to search up to the minute, premium content from providers like Wall Street Journal, I come to the realisation that Google favours stale content over fresh.
I performed the search for “G5 Powerbook” and only 2 of the top ten listings are recent. Google’s algorithms rank on the basis of link popularity, amongst others. This also means that for a site/page to receive incoming links, this is based on the effluxion of time, which basically means that new, fresh content will always be outdated, by the time that it is indexed and ranked in the SERPS.
I just had a look at Yahoo’s results for the same keyword and it seems alot more fresh and recent, but obviously this is my personal opinion.
The Search Engine wars are heating up, I’ll be performing these searches again in a few month (I’m trying to buy a Powerbook G5, as soon as it is released!). I’ll let you know what I think of the results then.
Am I making sense though? Link popularity only really works for information that will not or should not change over time, and it relies on the passage of time in order to prove the value of the content, but over time the value of certain content drops….
A paradox in itself? I think so!
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Comments On This Post
October 7, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Google may be losing ground but there really is no better search engine than Google! Really! Yahoo is alright but there is too much going on, adverts, and all that! Google will remain the top search engine for many years to come… I believe anyways!
July 28, 2009 at 10:32 am
Therea are some new good search engine now besides google. But, if google lose from them, what about Page Rank and Sell Text Link Ads that use Page Rank from Google?
August 31, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Google may be losing ground but there really is no better search engine than Google! Really!
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