Google (and other) search results should contain date of content
Search engines have generally treated older content gets mixed with most recent (and continuously updated) content, and you read everything only to realize that it was old article. It would be useful if Google and other search engines do add dates to the search results.
It is not so trivial to figure out the date of content (will require fair amount of text analysis), but then, these tasks are so easy for Google. If and when this happens, we can expect mashup folks to get active and use this information in interesting ways.
It is not so trivial to figure out the date of content (will require fair amount of text analysis), but then, these tasks are so easy for Google. If and when this happens, we can expect mashup folks to get active and use this information in interesting ways.
posted by Vinod Kulkarni at
7:44 PM
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Some of you got confused as to what is the issue here, since last-modified date can be returned by web servers.
What I meant was really to find out when the contents could have been written. Sometimes, the dates may be part of format (for e.g. for blogs, magazine articles). But some other times, you would have to deduce that by text analysis. Google can easily do this, and provide this information as part of search API. And it would be particularly nice if it adds a string such as "published during June 2007" to search results.
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Vinod Kulkarni, at November 24, 2007 at 11:17 PM
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