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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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