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Re:Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles und... by tablespoon on Friday August 13, 2021 @02:20PM (#28172404)
> See for yourself on the link to a google search below, results are filtered between 2018 and January 2021, but every single article for the first five pages is about the incident that occurred two weeks ago, mistakenly backdated years.

Is that the news website's fault, or Google's fault?

The first two links are to what look like keyword/topic pages with many articles, and it wouldn't be surprising of Google pulled a different date than what you're looking for out of such a page. Some of the other hits appear to be old articles with a "new stories" bar (not sure exactly what you call it, here's an example: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/15/trump-admits-biden-won-ele...).

Personally, I don't consider Google date searching to be very reliable, IMHO. They're making a promise with it they can't really keep.

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Re:Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles und... by nitrogen on Friday August 13, 2021 @03:21PM (#28173304)
Personally, I don't consider Google date searching to be very reliable, IMHO. They're making a promise with it they can't really keep.

It might work better if they searched on first-indexed date, rather than server modification timestamp headers or dates embedded within the page.

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Re:Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles und... by tablespoon on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:26PM (#28174753)
> It might work better if they searched on first-indexed date, rather than server modification timestamp headers or dates embedded within the page.

But that assumes they index things in a timely matter, which is likely not true a huge amount of the time.

And I don't think that would help in this case, because in many of the cases it appears they got the article date right, but the article page is dynamic and now includes snippets of stuff that post-dates the article.

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