Don't Believe Everything You Read

This lesson shouldn't need to be taught but you can't always believe what you read. Case in point, I noticed a couple of individuals posting this story, which purports to provide evidence that the Sandy Hook shooting was more than meets the eye:

(Thomas Dishaw) More twists to the Sandy Hook narrative. On December 11 Google indexed the United Way website that offered condolences to the family’s of Sandy Hook.

This is a full three days before the actual shooting that took place on December 14 2012. You can view the Google page here and the United Way page here.

If you go to the Google link provided in the story you'll notice it's a search for the results of "sandy hook united way" that appeared on December 11th, 2012. Since the shooting occurred on December 14th, 2012 you wouldn't expect any results but results appeared for the United Way Sandy School Support Fund webpage. In of itself this appears to be a little fishy but rest assured there is a simple explanation for these results, Google's date searching mechanism is a little wonky. To demonstrate this I did a search for "sandy hook shooting" on the date of December 1st, 2008 (click to embiggen):

Either the Sandy Hook shooting conspiracy was accidentally leaked to the Internet over four years ago or Google's search by date function is a bit unreliable. I'll let you be the judge.