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:
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— Matt Marshall (@mmarshall) November 19, 2023
Bill Hartzer also posted about this yesterday:
What’s odd, though, is that searching again for part of the title of the post actually DOES have the date right, posted 16 minutes ago (when it shows the featured snippet).
So part of the date issue is correct, but when searching for the URL in the SERPs it has a bad date (the… pic.twitter.com/AHw81nLFvt