Re: Websearch: ranking recent articles higher (was: Bandwidth-hungry services burden the internet)

2020-06-05 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
[Please note: Something happened with your MUA and your letter had fallen off the thread.] Akira Urushibata wrote: > On 28 May 2020 Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: >> "Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss)" <936-846-2...@kylheku.com> wrote: >>> It is fairly well-known that Google ranks newer material above

Re: Websearch: ranking recent articles higher (was: Bandwidth-hungry services burden the internet)

2020-05-29 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
"Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss)" <936-846-2...@kylheku.com> wrote: > It is fairly well-known that Google ranks newer material above older > material. Historic areas of the web are basically in a black hole as far as > the Google search is concerned. > > And since many people reach for the

Re: Bandwidth-hungry services burden the internet

2020-05-28 Thread Akira Urushibata
On May 2020 14:28:16 Kaz Kylheku wrote: > >Pages that Google had ranked top in search result lists last year > >are for some reason gone when the same search is conducted. > > > > This seems like a different issue though. Google is not you friend, > > and you should not trust them. >

Re: Bandwidth-hungry services burden the internet

2020-05-27 Thread Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss)
On 2020-05-26 22:33, a...@gnu.org wrote: I have been through some strange experiences recently. Certain web pages take seconds to load. In some instances the communication fails with a time-out. This sounds like an issue with your ISP -- and not a general issue. Could be an issue with

Re: Bandwidth-hungry services burden the internet

2020-05-26 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I have been through some strange experiences recently. Certain web pages take seconds to load. In some instances the communication fails with a time-out. This sounds like an issue with your ISP -- and not a general issue. Pages that Google had ranked top in search result lists last

Bandwidth-hungry services burden the internet

2020-05-26 Thread Akira Urushibata
Pretty much from our first encounter, Richard Stallman has been asking me to translate free software and hacker ethos terminology into Japanese. I have found some interesting solutions in classics. To explain what a hacker is you first have to understand. Hacker is a noun derived from the verb