Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking

Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by pyrophane on Friday October 21, 2016 @11:35AM (#12761269)

The two things I miss when using DDG: 1) The ability to easy filter results by date at 1 year 2) A last update date on the result.

There may be a way to get these things from DDG, but I'm haven't had the time to look for them yet.

Still DDG is pretty good, and obviously will get better the more we use it.

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Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by RodericDay on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:16PM (#12761647)

!year gets you some of the way there

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Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by blowski on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:58PM (#12762170)

That doesn't work for me. I can do `!syear` or `!gyear` to filter on Google or Start Page, but not with DDG results.

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Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by RodericDay on Friday October 21, 2016 @04:19PM (#12764306)

if you type

    !year girugamesh

vs.

    girugamesh

you definitely get two different sets of results, one general, and one discussing the term in retrospective (with urls denoting /2016/ for example). I think they don't highlight it well, but the filtering is definitely going on.

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Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by blowski on Saturday October 22, 2016 @02:28PM (#12769898)

For me at least, searching on an iPhone in the UK, I get the standard results query URL. The results are the same as when I search for "year girugamesh" (i.e. without the bang).

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