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The "custom range" feature simultaneously feels broken, gamed by spammers, and intentionally being scrubbed. I'm surprised they haven't completely removed it ye

• smcin 2y ago
  In general I suppose, but per my comment above in this particular case of the scb.co.th article (which mentions SARS crisis), the article was actually published 2021 not 2003, there was no gaming going on, simply Google's data-inference code got it totally wrong on the Siam Commercial Bank article. I don't want to see Google remove the search-by-date-range feature, it has tons of 100% serious legitimate uses (quote attribution, journalistic, historical, also debunking internet rumors and fresh reposts of old fake virals), but Google could estimate the errorbars on date-ranges and hitcounts, provide a disclaimer and feedback box to encourage users to flag/retag gross errors like this. If anyone dug deeper into why the date inferencing is now getting broken, I'd speculate they find Google is nowadays getting reciprocally confused by site publishers and advertising networks changing or removing items which contain date; but that's in turn presumably for Google changes which downrank or uprank legit older content. (I can't find the recent HN article here by an SEO expert with a bullet-point list advising website maintainers to remove all date information, among other things)
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