Here’s a screen shot of a Google search I did earlier today, made me wonder why Google thought it was important to include the date so many times
It’s even more odd considering the issues they’ve been having with getting dates right in Google news
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Such a waste of SERP real estate. Google usually does that for blogs or CMS-heavy websites. Don’t know why they keep the date though.
Try this http://www.google.com/search?q=us+airways+inflight+wifi&as_qdr=d
Michael, have you found out why that is? I’ve been wondering the same thing myself.
Not sure but one might think it could be the date of the latest post on the site that was cached, and puts it on each article posted within a certain date range.(JUST ASSUMING)
It’s because those pages are articles or posts with dates while the the ones with no dates are just websites with relevant content.
Actually, I had to go back and look again. Some articles with the dates even in the url’s didn’t even show the date in the listing description. Yeah, that is weird.
I’ve seen the same thing with posts from my blog. The dates are the date of the post. I’m not sure why Google considers them important.
Weird, I can’t tell what makes a site get a date with its search result. Looking into the source of the sites in the results, I can tell that it’s not:
* Using microformats
* Table-layouts vs CSS layouts
* Blog/CMS software
It might be:
* Using RFC 1123 formatted dates
* Not having a lot of dates on the page
Interesting find!
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