[Goose]

Dabigv is right; look at any of the articles from today (eg https://nationworldnews.com/how-the-orio...ho-we-are/) and you can see that they use a day/month/year date format.

BC

Yes, I know that, but that is the revision date, as confirmed by the "revised 5 days ago" comment next to the date. I am pretty sure Google Search uses the "post date (the date the article was first made available on the net)", which for the original article was in April. Otherwise, it wouldn't have shown up in my search. I believe that because searching the text of a file to determine it's "date" would yield many, many false drops from any date in the article text. Not using the "post date" would also mean any article that contains no date would never match a search containing a date constraint. This is obviously not the case, so...

[Goose]

Dabigv is right; look at any of the articles from today (eg https://nationworldnews.com/how-the-orio...ho-we-are/) and you can see that they use a day/month/year date format.

BC

Yes, I know that, but that is the revision date, as confirmed by the "revised 5 days ago" comment next to the date. I am pretty sure Google Search uses the "post date (the date the article was first made available on the net)", which for the original article was in April. Otherwise, it wouldn't have shown up in my search. I believe that because searching the text of a file to determine it's "date" would yield many, many false drops from any date in the article text. Not using the "post date" would also mean any article that contains no date would never match a search containing a date constraint. This is obviously not the case, so...