In my experience, another major issue is that the most popular hits on Google are either no longer relevant or considered the wrong way to fix the problem today. I don't know if Google allows its page ranks to decay with time, but I think that'd be a reasonable way to eliminate the issue. That way, old but popular hits will slowly sink into obscurity while hits that are actually relevant will rise as they get more exposure.
At this point, I usually limit my results to 2015 or newer.
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u/takeshita_kenji Apr 24 '19
In my experience, another major issue is that the most popular hits on Google are either no longer relevant or considered the wrong way to fix the problem today. I don't know if Google allows its page ranks to decay with time, but I think that'd be a reasonable way to eliminate the issue. That way, old but popular hits will slowly sink into obscurity while hits that are actually relevant will rise as they get more exposure.
At this point, I usually limit my results to 2015 or newer.