OK if any of you read Matt Cutts blog, then you must have already seen a post on this new advance search feature that's been added to Google. If you haven't and want to read what the heck is this all about, here you go. The new feature that's been added by Google is to search the pages for a particular query using the operator as_qdr (tentatively stands for advanced search — query date range) in address bar of Google.
OK if that's too tough to understand let's take an example. Let's say you are searching for the query research at MDI and you want to search for pages resulting using this query over last 2 weeks. All you have to do is just type the following in your address bar:
http://www.google.com/search?q=research+at+MDI&as_qdr=w2
You might wanna check out the first result :)
Of course I have used this example to show that over the past 2 weeks google has indexed around 26000 pages and the top result is from my blog. This also suggests that Google has crawled my blog in the last week 2 week. I am smart and I have not used as_qdr=w1 because my blog hasn't been crawled in last week.
The parameters that the operator as_qdr takes is as follows (scraping it from Matts Blog)
d[number] - past number of days (e.g.: d10)
w[number] - past number of weeks
y[number] - past number of years
So next time you want to refine your search and impress your colleagues and/or your clients feel free to boast about your uncanny knack of being a smart Google operators user.
OK if that's too tough to understand let's take an example. Let's say you are searching for the query research at MDI and you want to search for pages resulting using this query over last 2 weeks. All you have to do is just type the following in your address bar:
http://www.google.com/search?q=research+at+MDI&as_qdr=w2
You might wanna check out the first result :)
Of course I have used this example to show that over the past 2 weeks google has indexed around 26000 pages and the top result is from my blog. This also suggests that Google has crawled my blog in the last week 2 week. I am smart and I have not used as_qdr=w1 because my blog hasn't been crawled in last week.
The parameters that the operator as_qdr takes is as follows (scraping it from Matts Blog)
d[number] - past number of days (e.g.: d10)
w[number] - past number of weeks
y[number] - past number of years
So next time you want to refine your search and impress your colleagues and/or your clients feel free to boast about your uncanny knack of being a smart Google operators user.
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