I just added these to the bottom of the Wingnuttia Search post and I decided that they were useful enough to get a little more attention. Here are modified versions of what I wrote there.
Eliminate the results from a specific site
I often find that the results for a current hot topic are cluttered by frenzied chatter on certain sites, for example, Free Republic. To eliminate hits from the Freepers, add -freerepublic.com to the search string. (Note leading hyphen.) You can do this in the initial search or by adding it to the search box on the page of results. You can do this for more than one site at a time, too -- just add another space and another hyphen-sitename to the search box and press Enter again. Repeat as necessary.
Restricting the date range
You probably already know that you can restrict the date range through Google's Advanced Search interface. The following technique may be more efficient, particularly if you like keeping your hands on the keyboard and away from the mouse as much as I do.
First, do the search that you want. Then, on the results page, go up to your browser's location (address) bar, and add a string like this to the end of the URL: &as_qdr=d5. Then press Enter. (Note leading ampersand.)
This particular example restricts the results to the past five days. You can use another number in place of 5, of course. You can also use, say, &as_qdr=w2 to get results restricted to the last two weeks, &as_qdr=m4 to get results restricted to the last four months, &as_qdr=y1 to get results restricted to the past year, and so on. Here's what it looks like after searching for obama and then appending &as_qdr=d5 to the URL of the results page.
Note that, because of added comments or other updates to a given page, you may get hits from pages originally posted outside of the date range restriction you specified.
A reminder: CTRL-l (pressing the Control key and the letter L key together) makes the location bar active and ready for your typing. Once you get in the habit, the sequence CTRL-l, End (key), &as_qdr=... saves a lot of time and mousing.
I use Ah, Shit [too many results]. Quick! Date Restrict! as a mnemonic. I'm open to better ones.
Got a favorite Google search tip? Please add it in the comments.
3 comments:
Restricting the date range can be particularly effective when looking for the "original" story. Many times there is much more written later and you might not want to get caught up in all of the discussions.
Agreed. It'd be good to figure out the direct keyboard way of doing that, too. Lately, though, I've been more interested in filtering for recent results, so going to the Advanced Search page when I do want to cut out the newer stuff doesn't seem too tedious.
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