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by Calzifer 104 days ago
> 3) Google is biased towards sites that cover a topic earlier than others.

> I’ve seen pages that are still top 3 for a particular competitive query years later, simply because they were one of the first to write about it.

Reason why I still always get the Java 8 docs for any search. Annoying.

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I think the real reason for that is simply that a lot of people are still running Java 8 (so those docs still see a lot of traffic). I remember reading that it's still used by something like 25% of Java developers.