Freshness boosting
Increasing ranking weight for recently published or updated material.
What Freshness boosting does not show
It favors recency, which is not the same as accuracy or authority.
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Questions about Freshness boosting
What is Freshness boosting?
Increasing ranking weight for recently published or updated material.
What does Freshness boosting not show or guarantee?
It favors recency, which is not the same as accuracy or authority.
Which area of the glossary does Freshness boosting belong to?
Retrieval engineering: How pages become chunks, vectors and candidates inside an answer engine, and why being retrieved is not being cited.
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