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Some of you found cases where it says that something is more recent than it actually is.

I find it funnier when it finds results that are older than the real thing. How's that possible? For example, for "Tiktok", first result:

Make Your Day - TikTok: 9 Feb 1996 ...

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I also searched Tiktok and my first result was a BBC News story called 'What is Tiktok' from 1991!

I suspect it's a typo in the publish date field.

Many websites abuse dates to try to display old stuff as recent, but I've never seen the opposite... after a few searches I see it's certainly a thing (less so in content other than in English).

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