Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I don’t think it was the right date syntax for the before search operator.

Below worked for me

intext:"vibe coding" before:2025/02/01



Here's that Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=intext%3A%22vibe+coding%22+b...

The first result I got was this one https://vibecoding.vercel.app/ - which is shown as being from 2023... but that's fake.

Read the page and it starts by saying:

> On November 30, 2023, Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibecoding"

And then includes a screenshot of Andrej's tweet - this one: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

But that tweet is dated 2nd February 2025. The Vercel-hosted site is lying about the date.

I don't think Google's "before" filter actually works. It looks to me like blog spammers have figured this out and now habitually back-date their posts to a date well before they were written.


Dang- Good looking out, I think you’re right. My fault for not checking the links first! Well played spammers… that totally throws a wrench in my Google dorking scraping strategy ;( lol




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: