Re:The Return of the 90s Web
by slightwinder on Friday June 19, 2020 @07:43AM
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> For a long time I assumed that google indexed pretty much everything it,
They did that for a long time, but some years ago the index grew so big, they started restricting it. I thing the general timeframe is 10 years or less till the last update.
> If you click the advanced search its "updated within" and the max timeframe is a year.
Because it makes no sense to go further. For older content you can define individual dateranges. And yes, it works fine for me. Tested a search for 2015 just now, first side had entries all from 2015.
They did that for a long time, but some years ago the index grew so big, they started restricting it. I thing the general timeframe is 10 years or less till the last update.
> If you click the advanced search its "updated within" and the max timeframe is a year.
Because it makes no sense to go further. For older content you can define individual dateranges. And yes, it works fine for me. Tested a search for 2015 just now, first side had entries all from 2015.
> In fact it seems the date range example doesn't even work: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/structured_....
All those examples are not working. Wasn't custom search retired some years ago?