Google’s ‘Past 24 Hours’ Search Filter Is a Lie. Here’s Why You Keep Seeing Outdated Junk.
When you use Google’s ‘Past 24 hours’ filter, you expect breaking news. Instead, you often get articles from 2018. Google’s algorithm doesn’t track original publication dates—it tracks ‘last modified’ or ‘last crawled’ times. Here is why this flawed logic makes the tool dangerously unreliable for real-time research.