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I think a main issue is the vagueness of the query. I was searching for "what phone should i buy in 2020 site:reddit.com" and while a few results where from a
by rmetzler 7y ago
I think a main issue is the vagueness of the query.
I was searching for "what phone should i buy in 2020 site:reddit.com" and while a few results where from a year ago, most where from January 2020.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoGoogle have moved on from allowing exact searches to me made, sometimes you have to think "if I didn't know what I actually wanted to see, and was trying to make a question-form query about it, what would I write" and that gets better results, IME, than something where you know the exact words you want (which even with "" might not be in the link).
- rmetzler 7y agoNo, I didn't use quotes (exact match) in my query. This was only to express delimiters. Sorry for the confusion.
- Tenoke 7y agoAdding 2020 might kind of work in January. It wouldn't help as much for getting this month's results in November.
- rmetzler 7y agoI tried it and I think you're not right. The reason why this works most of the time (at least on reddit) because there are lot's of threads which put the date in the title. Query was: what phone should i buy nov 2019 site:reddit.com