GLOSSARY

Freshness

IN ONE SENTENCE

Freshness is a content's recency and whether the system treats it as currently valid.

Freshness is a content's recency and whether the system treats it as currently valid.

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In detail

It is among the most common causes of a brand being described wrongly: an old page is still live and the model retrieved it. The practical fix is dated, periodically reviewed key pages — not publishing new pages and hoping they outrank the old ones.

Updated 2026-08-06