Google presumably used AI to rank pages (it hasn’t been just PageRank for a while).
The AI has noticed people don’t engage with older content, so it deranks older content. It also deranks websites with lots of older content.
So websites pull their older content , which is an important form of historical memory.
Even if the AI isn’t actually doing this, people assume it is.
Because AIs aren’t rules based, we have to guess what it’s doing.
And we guess it’s deranking old sites.
Google presumably used AI to rank pages (it hasn’t been just PageRank for a while).
The AI has noticed people don’t engage with older content, so it deranks older content. It also deranks websites with lots of older content.
So websites pull their older content , which is an important form of historical memory.
Even if the AI isn’t actually doing this, people assume it is.
Because AIs aren’t rules based, we have to guess what it’s doing.
And we guess it’s deranking old sites.