[blowski]

Within engineering, there is this weird dominant culture that fresher information is more likely to be accurate.

Sometimes, that's right, because a lot of tech changes so quickly that a three year old article about is now hopelessly out of date since v5 deprecated v3 syntax.

For a lot of other articles, I'd rather read an authoritative, well-written article that was published 40 years ago. Nothing material has changed in the intervening period, so it doesn't matter.

Google just doesn't seem to know when I value quality over freshness, so it defaults to the latter most of the time.

[swader999]

Sheldon Brown's bike tuning comes to mind after reading your comment. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/articles.html (look at that, an html page!!!)

[cjmcqueen]

It's a type of prisoners dilemma with Google. They're having to out game the SEO gamers and pick a tactic that moves the web forward and doesn't over reward entrenched parties. I agree this site gives good useful information, but what if new glues come out on the market? What if a YouTube channel comes out comparing and testing glues? Authority is great until it's out of date, so I think it's logical to go with a bias towards fresh content.

I do wish there was more of a focus on attribution and citing sources on the web. Maybe Web3 will save us on that front...

[auveair]

> I agree this site gives good useful information, but what if new glues come out on the market? What if a YouTube channel comes out comparing and testing glues?

All good questions, but shame that google answer to that is "surely a Wordpress blog called 2022-glue-boss.com made in the last year has all those answers!"

[9dev]

Web3 will save nothing for any of us, but funnel money in the pockets of investors. That’s all it is.

[Phrenzy]

I'm sure Web4 will solve that.