[mardifoufs]

If there's one thing google needs to very very heavily penalize in their page rank algorithm, it's websites that outright lie about date. It makes the entire search process unusable for tons of queries, even more so than if they just didn't display any date.

If that's impossible they should at least keep track of page history independently of what the page itself says. Especially when it's very obviously just done to cheat the algo. There's no way for an archived 7 year old reddit article to actually change, and honestly even in an active post I don't see any reason for updating the timestamps.

[aghilmort]

founder of Breeze where our core thesis is searching by date, and yeah, it's a massssssssssssssive problem. there's only so much we can do for queries we support that are serviced by other indexes, we're adding an archive compare for queries where we're doing the indexing along with the query and even in that situation, yeah, it's just a lot of work and again only so much can do