> So I built a real website. That was two weeks ago.

Is Google supposed to have drastic updates to its index over 2 weeks?

stavros 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The whole project is a month old, and two weeks were more than enough for Google to rank the fake site first, so yes?

	▲	shadowgovt 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is significant first-mover advantage in the index, especially when the public is finding the initial result to be good enough to satisfy their questions. Google doesn't care more about authoritative answers than the public does; the public is one of Google's signals for good-quality results.

bubblewand 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Back when they were good at being a web search, yes.

carlosjobim 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It usually takes one or two days for them to start ranking new pages. They're fast!

	▲	AznHisoka 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not these days in my experience. Maybe 5-10 years ago. I imagine Google is so indundated with so much spam, and AI slop they are being more discrimantory on what to crawl and index

Uh? Yes?