These refinements have implications for you, your organization and
your online presence.
Today, let’s focus on one thing: how Google describes changes related to searching for and finding current content.
- Smoother ranking
changes for fresh
results. We want to help
you find the freshest
results, particularly for searches with important new web content, such as
breaking news topics. We try to promote content that appears to be fresh. This change
applies a more granular classifier, leading to more nuanced changes in
ranking based on freshness.
- Improvement in a freshness signal. This change is a minor improvement to one of the freshness signals which helps to better identify fresh documents.
- No freshness boost for low-quality content. We have modified a classifier we use to promote fresh content to exclude fresh content identified as particularly low-quality. (110 words)
- Fresher, more recent results: As we announced
just over a week ago, we’ve made a significant improvement to how we rank fresh content. This change impacts
roughly 35 percent of total searches (around 6-10% of search results to a
noticeable degree) and better determines the appropriate level of freshness for a given query. (54 words)
Some variation of the word “fresh” appears 14 times in 164 words, and the entire thing appears to be written in Googlish (English + Google = Googlish).
Based on the Google Official Blog and Inside Search blog, fresh means: relevant,
recent, up-to-date, latest and/or hot topics trending on the web. And, yes, to
answer the question you’re undoubtedly asking, you have to dig to find this
information.
What signal is
Google sending? Whatever it is, it's smoother, more granular, more nuanced – and packed to the brim with freshness.
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