Sometimes when I search for articles on the net, I would like to see the year of the article to see if it's relevant for my search. Is it possible to return that in the search result of Google search somehow, or can you recommend any other search engine with this feature?
Google-search – Returning date in Google search results
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On Google:
- Do a search as usual
- Click on the
Search toolsoption in the menu bar and then onCustom range - Pick your desired date or type it into the
To:-field - Click on
Go.
I found an elegant solution to this problem using Google Custom Search.
To see the result in action, go to this custom search engine.
To set up your own version, go to google.com/cse and:
click "create a custom search engine"
put whatever you want on the setup page, but use a nonexistent url for the "sites to search" box
click "next" twice (change the look if you like)
click on the link "change the basics" under "next steps"
at the bottom of the "basics" page, check "search the entire web but emphasize included sites"
uncheck "Show automatic thumbnail"
save changes
click on the name of your search engine at the top of the "basics" page to use it.
To use your search in a URL (to replace your existing search engine):
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=000628392187335527771:2-d3w-aefr4&q=searchterms
You'll need to replace the cx variable with the value from your own custom search engine and replace "searchterms" with %s or whatever you usually use in your URL to indicate keyword placement.
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Best Answer
Generally, if you want to know how recent the information is, you can use a Google “date” filter (via the Advanced Search page, under the “Date, usage rights, numeric range, and more” section).
Or, you can append specific &key=value variables to your search URL, as shown on the Unofficial Google Advanced Search guide page. The guide, details several date-based or time-based options, such as date (past N months), daterange (between two Julian dates), or tbs=qdr (limit by time period).
I've had good results by appending daterange and limit by time period to my URL; mixed results with just date alone. Here are some examples.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby&hl=en&date=6http://www.google.com/search?q=ajax&hl=en&daterange=2452821-2453187http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby&hl=en&tbs=,qdr:m