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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 replied to this.

    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).

      Understood. Not much can be done here then. 🙂

        11 days later
        a month later

        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.

          7 months later

          I am encountering inconsistency with dates sometimes disappearing or not showing at all.

          For example, when searching "ublock disabled" in general, I see there is one Reddit post with a date here and the rest of the ones under don't have a date.

          I also see this Verge article with an incorrect date, while the date for the article is literally in the title and clearly displayed in the headline.

          Meanwhile, Google seems to be fine with it

          However, when I search with site:www.reddit.com
          I see this

          The exact same article is here, but without a date stamp. It's also far lower than it was before even though it's more recent than the posts above it. Some posts are missing dates while some have them, again showing how inconsistent it is.

          This can be seen again, for other websites like this

          This article is the same format as the ones above and below it with a date clearly visible and yet it's missing a date while the other articles have one.

          I'd appreciate if I could get some clarity on why this happens and if there's a solution to provide more consistent dates like Google, Bing and other competitors.

          The search should be able to show the correct dates for all Reddit posts and most articles - at least the ones Google and other competitors are able to display accurately.

            We can definitely improve the cases / bugs where the date luckily is encoded in the URL.

            For the majority of results, we rely on our upstream indexes that we use to give us date information alongside the results. In your first example of ublock disabled, it is the case that none of them gave us any date for the link. And we cannot crawl it on the fly without adding a mountain of latency to your results.

            Ensuring we have a date for every single URL (or specifically articles) is not something we can easily promise for this reason, but we will see what improvements can be made; at least fixing that one Verge bug 😃

              z64
              Hello, thank you for the response.
              I understand that dates depend on indexers however I feel like the lack of dates in combination with the groupings make the search engine far less useful when looking at recent events.

              For example, the protests in London yesterday.
              When I search for it on Kagi

              Literally the second result I see is from a year ago which is confusing to say the least - as it's not related to the protests yesterday as per my search query.

              Comparing this with Google gives me

              Which are all relevant results from yesterday with the correct date stamps.

              The outdated and dateless results personally make Kagi feel far less useful to me as someone who's frequently looking to search for recent news and developments. I'd appreciate if more could somehow be done here.
              Thank you.

                  4 days later

                  azdanov Why don't indexers return dates? Most search engines used as indexers like Google and Bing do include the dates.

                      6 days later

                      I'll merge this thread into the older one. We'll review the available options and follow up with an update

                        Merged 7 posts from Dates on articles and Reddit posts are inconsistent and often missing.

                          I'm not actually sure how these dates get determined (please explain, would love to know)
                          but this one aint right xd

                          I expected a date from 2024

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                            Merged 1 post from Date wrong on search result.
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                              Luis changed the title to Search results display incorrect or missing dates. .
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                                Merged 2 posts from Why do some sites not have dates?.
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