Dev Thoughts

I have been using the Google search engine for many years now, and have found it to produce good search results, that is until recently. What’s been annoying me now is that I do frequent searches to find information related to fields that change frequently, such as Ruby and Rails, and the results that I get are the oldest ones which are no longer valid or are innacurate.

Generally when I search for a particular problem I am having, the first results that come up have been from a blog that is 2-3 years old, and about a dozen versions out of date. Though it’s not only Google that has this problem, but a lot of the other major search engines. It’s that they give more precedence to how old a particular site is rather than if it’s relevant anymore. This also disproves the adage that there’s no more innovation to be had in search.

For now though what would be really useful would be the ability to sort the search results by date. From newest to oldest, oldest to newest, so that the information for the newest versions would come out on top rather than be buried in the search results. I’d love to see this as an advanced search option, or even one of those Google search box commands.