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Comment by Tenoke | Hacker News Reader

A big part of the problem is that it returns results from years ago, even when I specify that I want only recent results. I tried a few different variations and the results were still bad.

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To be fair, Google has always been trash at searching for recentness. I don't remember a time when searching "recommended X (current year)" didn't return old out-of-date info. I think Google has had a habit of returning 3-year-old pages since its inception.

Did you try clicking Search Tools and limiting the date range there instead of in the query string? Always works for me.

searching for

  best cell phone to buy site:reddit.com

and setting it to results from last month works fine...

Did you click on the results? I just checked that exact query and it's mostly the same links - the first one is the one from 6 years ago, as with my original search.

Still getting results that are outdated if you click on the links, even though the date on the search results page is recent.

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