It was already a serious problem for google search results for years with many sites reporting that their content is older than it is, making the date options i

It was already a serious problem for google search results for years with many sites reporting that their content is older than it is, making the date options in advanced search much less useful. I can see it being useful for for re-hosted content like usenet posts, but as far as I could tell it's more commonly used as some sort of SEO meta.