Was searching in Google today and was surprised it found several posts dated October 2016. But when I opened them (exhibit A), they were actually old 2009 questions. There is no visible sign of update after 2009, so I'm wondering what gives?
I guess this has something to do with moving old stuff to Archive, but then only some posts have a wrong date, many others correctly show earlier dates.
Unfortunately, this seriously skews the Google search results as I always look for newer posts when it comes to ABAP questions. What was true in 2009 is sometimes no longer valid in 2017.
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Not sure who can best address this one. Let me look into it...
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Just following up on the old question. I'm still seeing the same effect - the dates shown in a simple Google search are incorrect.
Has anyone looked into this? Is this a problem with Google?
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Best AnswerNov 10, 2017 at 09:02 AM
No an expert on the topic (I rarely use Google for searching), but there is a difference in displayed dates for the same discussions depending on the usage of site: operator.
Without site: operator:
With site: operator:
The discussion that I marked is: https://archive.sap.com/discussions/thread/3926611
From what I see the last update was on June, 30, 2016.
I found an old discussion on the topic - Google Shows the Indexing Date for Each Search Result, where some noted that the feature had some flaws. Who knows, maybe this date display is still a problem.
If this is a problem with Google itself I doubt that there is much that the IT team could do about it.
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Nov 09, 2017 at 11:13 PM
Wow this is concerning.. especially because I guess most people rather use google as search engine for SCN related stuff than SCN search itself.
My modus operandi is always google... subject.... + site:sap.com
And just adding to your findings, when you include the date filter those results do not come up.
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