This is really a flaw in Google, not stackoverflow (maybe at SO too, depending on how their search is ranked).<p>The relevance of a page at StackOverflow is less relevant if it is 5years old than if it is 1 year old, even if the page rank based on links is higher. I&#x27;m not sure if&#x2F;how Google implements this, but a good heuristic would be to classify content as modern tech and have a page rank decay based on age.<p>For an even more advanced implementation, very &quot;new topics&quot; should decay even faster. Articles about Windows 10 or the Rust programming language should have a half life of 6 months now, while older topics can have longer tails.