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Old articles are clogging up search engines (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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The internet used to be where you found the latest information. But it's old enough that you could easily find info on 10-20 year old articles that are out of date and irrelevant

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I find it's the opposite: engines are so biased toward new content that older but still useful (or crucial) results are buried. I feel like an archeologist some days, carefully digging through the strata to find ancient hidden treasure.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You make like Kagi. It's a search engine that lets you - among other things - search old articles. It's a paid service though (but they offer a free 100 queries trial)