Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job

Re:Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job by lettergram on Sunday February 01, 2015 @10:27AM (#8980177)

One of the paragraphs:

"Even Google Search, their flagship product, stopped focusing on the history of the web. In 2011, Google removed the Timeline view letting users filter search results by date, while a series of major changes to their search ranking algorithm increasingly favored freshness over older pages from established sources. (To the detriment of some.)"

I don't know if this is what they mean, but I can search by date just fine:

http://imgur.com/e1tEq4M

Perhaps it's just not as clear of a view?

Overall, I agree with the article, but we have the internet archive for the internet, perhaps it's time for another organization for everything else. I am sure there are those organizations, but they don't seem all that large or effective.

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Re:Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job by narcissus on Sunday February 01, 2015 @10:46AM (#8980259)

I think the difference is that the date search is for finding stuff that was originally posted / crawled in that date range. (I believe) the original comment was regarding searching some HTML, for example, as it was at that date.

That is to say: if you had a page that changed over time, you would be able to search for that page as it existed in a particular date range, not just searching for a page that was posted / first crawled in that range.

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