Using Date Range to Restrict Search Results
I was searching last weekened how to apply for a visa, and I wanted to know how long will it take to process the documents. However, I was more interested about the timeline of visa applicants who processed there papers recently. So I used the date range for my query, adjust it to ‘past 6 months’ and got the web pages I wanted.
Date range is an uncommon feature of Google.com. It allows you to search through a specific period of time. Just click the ‘advanced search‘ link beside the search button, then the link on ‘Date, usage rights, numeric range, and more‘. After that, choose how recent the pages you want to appear on the search results. Maybe articles in the past 24 hours, past week, past month, past 3 months, or in the past year. Then click the ‘advanced search‘ button.
But aside from that, there’s a trick with the date range. You can search posts/pages about your query in the past 10 days, or in the past 5 weeks, or 7 months. Find out how on this post.
The date range feature is really useful since the webpages that appear on the results are affected by Pageranks regardless of the dates they were published. And there are times that you just really wanted the latest articles about your query.
Two more examples below:
- new web pages in the past 24 hours about Australia
- recent web pages in the past 2 months about Gmail
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Fri, 2nd May 2008 1:07 pm
[...] more relevant and latest search results I sorted my query using the date range which reminded me of Google’s date range feature. I also tried filtering my queries using the top forums, or looked on top companies’ [...]
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