Estimating article publication dates and authors based on social media context

A method of estimating initial publication information based on social media context analysis, comprising:

• receiving a search string associated with an object;
• searching cached Internet content for one or more documents having a title that matches the search string and publication information associated with the one or more documents, the publication information comprising at least one or more authors and publication dates, wherein the one or more documents comprise cached Internet search result and the publication information is associated with the cached Internet search result;
• searching for the one or more documents that contain the search string within the content of the one or more documents and the publication information associated with the one or more documents, responsive to not finding the one or more documents having the title that matches the search string;
• searching social media data posted on a social networking website, for information associated with the search string, topic associated with the search string, and the one or more documents and the publication information;
• and
• resolving the one or more documents and the publication information associated with the one or more documents and the information found in the social media data, the resolving comprising at least determining the authors and the publication dates of the one or more documents,
• wherein the resolving the one or more documents and the publication information associated with the one or more documents and the information found in the social media data further comprises generating a timeline using the one or more documents and the publication information associated with the one or more documents and the information found in the social media data, the timeline comprising at least historical information associated with the authors,
• the resolving correcting accuracy of the cached Internet search result returned by a search engine.