Covid-19 way “before” 2019 (Google Fail)

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Post by cocoapuffs7 » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 7:04 AM UTC

Re: Covid-19 way “before” 2019 (Google Fail)

#2

Post by emayljames » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 7:09 AM UTC

To be fair, is maybe these pages servers setting bad date/timestamps.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 7:13 AM UTC

emayljames wrote: post #2

To be fair, is maybe these pages servers setting bad date/timestamps.

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Post by just-juan-post » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 9:13 AM UTC

Google is certainly broken.

Do some searches against Reddit and you will see the same thing: Posts that are from 2018-2020 (according to Reddi) are marked as 2008 on Google.

Been happening for a few weeks now.

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Post by rolandog » Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 9:36 AM UTC

emayljames wrote: post #2

To be fair, is maybe these pages servers setting bad date/timestamps.

I checked my first result, and I think it's parsing the URL's address as a date, instead of relying on the article's meta "DC.date.published" tag.