For AI Overviews, a fresh date beats years of authority more often than you'd admit.

For AI Overviews, a fresh date beats years of authority more often than you'd admit.

Watch which sources Google pulls into Overviews on fast-moving topics — they skew alarmingly recent, sometimes thin sites with last week's date over the established giant. The model wants to look current more than it wants to look right.

Republishing with a real update can out-rank pages you'll never out-authority.

Ugly, gameable, true. Tell me I'm wrong.