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I don't buy this take for a second. You honestly don't think Google has a VAST and complete trove of time-stamped data scraped and indexed from decades of its existence. You don't have access to it. But they do.

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In my experience, indicies tend to trust the date in the article more than the date it was discovered. That’s also how some people fight bad press: copy an article verbatim, set the date to the day before, file takedown notice for theft of content.

By the time the actual content comes back up, it won’t matter.

People care a lot more about current events than past events.

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