Re: [Wikimedia-l] Persistence of old vandalized Wikipedia articles in Google search, especially for zombie attacks

Can someone explain how a vandalized version of the Wikipedia article about Henry Kissinger that was only visible for a rather short time several days ago, is still being promoted in Google searches today?[1][2] The "zombie sex" vandalism was only visible for a few minutes, quickly fixed by admin El C and the page indefinitely protected. Yet it is this four day old version that Google searches were using in preference to either the current version or older versions with more long term public visibility. In the age of real smart Google AI and active mirrors of Wikipedia, how is this still our reality? It does not give me confidence that politically vandalized articles potentially for the benefit of state sponsored agents are not also being promoted in searches for several days, regardless of how fleetingly they are visible on Wikipedia and speedily corrected by volunteers. It would be good to have a simple explanation of any improvements to how this works, and our Wikimedia projects pragmatic relationship with Google and other search engines. Thanks! Links 1.

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