New Reports: Google Search Getting Dates Wrong Again
I am seeing some new reports, some publicly, and some not, of Google Search getting the dates they display in the Google Search results wrong. This is a common issue that Google has struggled with over the years but recently seemed to have been getting better at.
A number of folks at VentureBeat complained about this, here are those complaints:
Updating this: we have enough reports at this point. If we need more, we might create a form.We are looking into what’s reported to see if there are *general* improvements we can make; we are not making changes for particular sites (our systems don’t work that way), so if you… pic.twitter.com/PIEeNlqVxl— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) November 20, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
We’ve checked on our end, including with WordPress VIP, and it doesn’t look like we can fix it, or that the problem is on our side. Indeed, we see other sites like Fortune having the same problem. @FortuneMagazine pic.twitter.com/9U7OcK7MGe
— Matt Marshall (@mmarshall) November 19, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Bill Hartzer also posted about this yesterday:
I literally did NOT write that post 10 hours ago, it was less than an hour ago. But searching for the title of the blog post or putting the URL in Google it shows that I wrote it 10 hours ago.Google still has a Date… pic.twitter.com/Qx85oBmXCj— Bill Hartzer (@bhartzer) November 20, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Danny Sullivan from Google did respond:
We can’t give any specialized support, but I’ll pass it on in case we spot an issue that can be resolved to help things generally. Do double check how dates are being sent, if you haven’t already, including if you have other articles on the same page with full dates.
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) November 20, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
The dates are set properly in json-ld datePublished and dateModified. The date which is being pulled in is from a video embed on the page.
— Alexei Ilinykh (@alexeilinykh) November 20, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Have any of you noticed any issues in the past couple of days or so with dates in the Google Search results?
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