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I tried switching to DDG, but found that I was really missing Google's date range filter. Especially for troubleshooting searches where you can get results tha

by patja 15y ago

I tried switching to DDG, but found that I was really missing Google's date range filter. Especially for troubleshooting searches where you can get results that are relevant to the search terms but have obsolete old content, I almost always hit "past year" or even "past month". I know about the sort by date feature in DDG, but I really want date as a filter on the whole result set, with a sort by relevance within the filtered results.

jvehent 15y ago
I support that ! This is the feature I miss the most in DDG. Most of my searches during the day relate to tech stuff, and recent content is one of the most relevant criteria (usually, I filter to get the result from the last 12 months).
- epi0Bauqu 15y ago
  Thx! This is something we've wanted to do, but don't have great data for yet. If you use the sort by date feature (for timely pages) there is a date displayed. You can get to that by selecting it in the drop down next to the search box or by typing sort:date or just s:d at the end of the query. You can also quickly get to the google ranges (when needed) via our !bang syntax: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html - e.g. just add !gyear !gmonth etc to the end of your query.
re_todd 15y ago
Agree 100%. I use the "past year" or "past month" at least once a day. No date ranges to fiddle with, no new page to have to go to to enter a date range .... just click the link and the results appear in a second. DDG would be awesome with this.
DanBC 15y ago
Weirdly, I want a time filter, but to block recent results and promote results older than X years. I can think of the example, but there was something with few results for (about) 12 years ago (and those were the ones I wanted) but millions for this year. (And I didn't want those.)

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I tried switching to DDG, but found that I was really missing Google's date range filter. Especially for troubleshooting searches where you can get results tha

by patja 15y ago

jvehent 15y ago
I support that ! This is the feature I miss the most in DDG. Most of my searches during the day relate to tech stuff, and recent content is one of the most relevant criteria (usually, I filter to get the result from the last 12 months).
- epi0Bauqu 15y ago
  Thx! This is something we've wanted to do, but don't have great data for yet. If you use the sort by date feature (for timely pages) there is a date displayed. You can get to that by selecting it in the drop down next to the search box or by typing sort:date or just s:d at the end of the query. You can also quickly get to the google ranges (when needed) via our !bang syntax: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html - e.g. just add !gyear !gmonth etc to the end of your query.
re_todd 15y ago
Agree 100%. I use the "past year" or "past month" at least once a day. No date ranges to fiddle with, no new page to have to go to to enter a date range .... just click the link and the results appear in a second. DDG would be awesome with this.
DanBC 15y ago
Weirdly, I want a time filter, but to block recent results and promote results older than X years. I can think of the example, but there was something with few results for (about) 12 years ago (and those were the ones I wanted) but millions for this year. (And I didn't want those.)