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I've seen a couple news sources that are altering their publish dates to show near the top of news feeds. Google will announce "3 hours old", despite being week

by petee 3y ago

I've seen a couple news sources that are altering their publish dates to show near the top of news feeds. Google will announce "3 hours old", despite being weeks old.

laweijfmvo 3y ago
Yup, "Last Updated on xxx" but no obvious updates called out in the article
- 1letterunixname 3y ago
  And definitely no "diff" to previous versions. Even if updates are mostly minor corrections or batch updates of boilerplate, the capability exists to rewrite any part or all of a story if there's no way to see past versions from third-parties from a single cache from archive.is or possibly archive.org. Archival navigation and visualization should be deeply integrated into a user-centric, privacy browser.
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throwitawayfam 3y ago
Reddit does this and it's very frustrating
- mnholt 3y ago
  Wow, I thought that was just me. The elation of googling for a niche Reddit topic and finding one very recent only to reach that sad realization that the content is 11y old and likely not relevant anymore.
  - tiltowait 3y ago
    Even worse when this happens, and you find that it's an old post you made. Happened to me more than once. I never realized this was intentional on reddit's part; I just assumed Google was broken.
- yomlica8 3y ago
  I've been unable to find a reddit post in google I read yesterday and remembered all of the words in the title. No idea what is going on there.
rjmunro 3y ago
Google should be massively down ranking sites that do this. Also if a site has a huge historical archive, that should be a positive indicator of site quality, not a negative one.
Flameancer 3y ago
Yea I’ve noticed that as well. It’s really annoying when you search for something new but it links to an article that says a few months but it’s in fact years old.
carlosjobim 3y ago
I'm not certain they are altering publish dates, it is probably an error of Google. I've my own sites in the search results with wrong publishing dates, that don't make any sense.

by petee 3y ago

I've seen a couple news sources that are altering their publish dates to show near the top of news feeds. Google will announce "3 hours old", despite being weeks old.

laweijfmvo 3y ago

Yup, "Last Updated on xxx" but no obvious updates called out in the article

1letterunixname 3y ago
And definitely no "diff" to previous versions. Even if updates are mostly minor corrections or batch updates of boilerplate, the capability exists to rewrite any part or all of a story if there's no way to see past versions from third-parties from a single cache from archive.is or possibly archive.org. Archival navigation and visualization should be deeply integrated into a user-centric, privacy browser.

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throwitawayfam 3y ago

Reddit does this and it's very frustrating

mnholt 3y ago
Wow, I thought that was just me. The elation of googling for a niche Reddit topic and finding one very recent only to reach that sad realization that the content is 11y old and likely not relevant anymore.
- tiltowait 3y ago
  Even worse when this happens, and you find that it's an old post you made. Happened to me more than once. I never realized this was intentional on reddit's part; I just assumed Google was broken.
yomlica8 3y ago
I've been unable to find a reddit post in google I read yesterday and remembered all of the words in the title. No idea what is going on there.

rjmunro 3y ago

Google should be massively down ranking sites that do this. Also if a site has a huge historical archive, that should be a positive indicator of site quality, not a negative one.

Flameancer 3y ago

Yea I’ve noticed that as well. It’s really annoying when you search for something new but it links to an article that says a few months but it’s in fact years old.

carlosjobim 3y ago

I'm not certain they are altering publish dates, it is probably an error of Google. I've my own sites in the search results with wrong publishing dates, that don't make any sense.