Incorrect date for search result

azdanov

When searching for https://kagi.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+nova+launcher one of the results shows 2023 as year, but when opening the result then can see that it was 7 years ago (2016). Some results show correct dates, but others are completely off.

I would expect the results on Kagi to show correct date or not to show a date at all if it's impossible to infer from the found result.

Vlad

azdanov Determining date is not exact science. Is the date the page was first posted? last updated? last comment added? The date we show comes from our upstream providers so not much under our control (we do not crawl the entire web).

azdanov

Understood. Not much can be done here then. 🙂

silvenga

I have noticed that, at least Reddit, is drastically inaccurate with the dates - Google Search has the same issue, FWIW. I'm not sure where either of them are pulling the date from - I can't even see correlation with comment dates. This however, does make searching for a date range (aka up-to-date information) a bit useless as it is.

I suspect hidden comments (aka spam comments hidden automatically) are to blame - but that's impossible to figure out.