Freshness
How recently a search index has seen a page, and how current the content it returns is.
What it means
Freshness describes how recently a search index has seen a page and how current its content is. A fresh index crawls new pages quickly and refreshes changed ones. Freshness also depends on the date a page reports, which is not always the date it was last edited. A provider can have a fast index and still return old pages for a query.
Search APIs offer date filters to control this. Common options include a time range such as day, week or month, and explicit start and end dates. Some return a publish or last-updated date with each result so your code can filter it. When freshness matters, combine a date filter with a check of the page date in your own code, since missing or wrong dates are common.
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https://bestwebsearchapi.com/glossary/freshness/