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by JPLeRouzic 978 days ago
> Even when there aren’t better sources I’ve found that the SO results are just all outdated and don’t cover any newer stuff

I think their algorithm is the problem, answers should be slowly deprecated over time. Who in real life would trust an answer written 10 years ago when languages, OSes and frameworks change every year?

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They do do this! When you're on a question, for example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30081275, click on the answer sort order drop-down and select trending.

I've also seen the trending sort automatically applied on certain questions.

So the default priority that it shows to search engine crawlers is the wrong one?