The Technology Inventory

Google traditionally uses the date of creation or modification of documents when ranking search results. For instance, the date of creation tells Google the pace of link growth and how soon domains change server location and registrar accounts. These indicators are used to detect signs of spamming. Google also looks at the inception date of a document when processing search queries about breaking news in order to give priority to newly written blog posts and news articles. As Google simply puts it, old and newly created documents “may be more favorable” than the other. The question is when.