Google dismissed the United Airlines-archived news fiasco as a fluke, but Michael Gray serves up more recent examples of the search giant indexing and displaying old news articles with current dates.
First up is a New York Times post about investment firm HRJ suffering from the subprime mortgage crisis. The article is from August 2007, but it turns up during a search with
a date of Sept. 14, 2008. "What if I'm in the financial market and as part of my job I have to monitor HRJ Capital, and I go to Google News and search for them," Gray says. "I get the story that was
originally published on August 24, 2007 but that Google thinks was published on September 14th 2008. Do you see how assigning the wrong date to old news could cause a problem?"
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follows with another Times article, this one from October 2007. It turns up in the search results with a date of Sept. 4, 2008.
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