why producing an incorrect web result?

[drhouse]

btw, cheers for the chatgpt-advanced addon it's truly amazing, I wonder if the GPT team have seen it and what they think lol

ok so, I asked the following question:

"who were the latest guests on Bill Maher's Real Time show?"

chatgpt-advanced answered:

"the latest guest on Bill Maher's Real Time show were Noa Tishby, an Israeli actress, producer, and activist; Andrew Yang, a tech entrepreneur, former presidential candidate, author of "Forward," and founder of The Forward Party (PAC); and Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a Democratic Congresswoman representing Michigan's 7th district[1]. This episode aired on March 17, 2023."

However, as of the date I asked it (03/26/23), this was the previous week's guests, the correct answer being:

"March 24, 2023: David Sedaris, Scott Galloway, Annie Lowrey".

When going to DuckDuckGo and searching using the same question, the entry result with the correct answer (March 24) appears before the one with the wrong answer (March 17).

So, I was wondering why this may be happening, and what I could possibly do to get the correct answer without having to manually add more details to my question.

[Eylon12345]

Can you write it or code it to always prefer the newer web results?

[drhouse]

well, after experimenting, it seems the common denominator to get the correct answer was to limit results to: 'Past Week' I noticed that using '!g' Google always failed to produce correct answers, no matter the settings