"Before 2020" on Google search finds pages that existed before 2020 that currently match your search terms.
Any news site has a panel with current news links to get you to read other stories there, so what happens is any trending topic will just return random articles from pre-2020 that Google has seen the current trending section of.
So the news articles from your "before" date actually about the topic are impossible to find at least until the current interest dies down and you forget about looking into it, and any page that used to have it and was censored won't be returned so you can't even find links to wayback.
As a way to enforce the Current Narrative while giving the illusion of being able to research the past it's absolute genius.
"Before 2020" on Google search finds pages that existed before 2020 that currently match your search terms.
Any news site has a panel with current news links to get you to read other stories there, so what happens is any trending topic will just return random articles from pre-2020 that Google has seen the current trending section of.
So the news articles from your "before" date actually about the topic are impossible to find at least until the current interest dies down and you forget about looking into it, and any page that used to have it and was censored won't be returned so you can't even find links to wayback. As a way to enforce the Current Narrative while giving the illusion of being able to research the past it's absolute genius.
"Before 2020" on Google search finds pages that existed before 2020 that currently match your search terms.
Any news site has a panel with current news links to get you to read other stories there, so what happens is any trending topic will just return random articles from pre-2020 that Google has seen the current trending section of.
So the news articles from your "before" date actually about the topic are impossible to find at least until the current interest dies down and you forget about looking into it. As a way to enforce the Current Narrative while giving the illusion of being able to research the past it's absolute genius.