In the case of news articles, the publishing date of the web page is included but in situations where the date is not specified (or you think the mentioned date in incorrect), you can use a simple Google hack to know when a web page or web domain was last published on the Internet. Google can tell the date when a web page was first published on the Web. Step 1. Go to google.com and copy-paste the full URL of any web page in the search box with the inurl: operator (e.g.inurl:www.example.com). Hit enter. google.com/search?q=inurl:http://all4u.cf/setup Step 2. Now go to browser address bar (Ctrl+L in Firefox & Chrome or Alt+D in Internet Explorer) and copy-paste “&as_qdr=y15″ at the end of the Google search URL. Press enter again. google.com/search?q=inurl:http://www.all4u.cf/setup&as_qdr=y15 Step 3. Google will load the search results again but this time, you’ll see theactual publication date of the web page next to the title in Google search results as in the above screenshot. This trick should help if you citing tweets (MLA or APA style) or citing web pages (MLA style) in your papers. How old is a web page? Because Google can crawl the page the moment it is published on the Internet, the indexed date appearing in search results is often accurate. However, if the content of a web page were changed after the first Google crawl, the publishing date may actually represet the date when it was most recently edited and not the date when it was first indexed or published.
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