This has been a long-term struggle to get right, though I really see the light at the end of the tunnel and think it may come sometime this year, hopefully sooner than later.

For others who may not know though, we do have last month -- drop down above results.

I just wanted to take a moment and write my appreciation for your fantastic work. Services such as duckduckgo are needed now more than ever. The fact that it is stable and responsive enough for me to depend on it 100% every work day is amazing

The lack of this feature probably accounts for half my !g searches – happy to hear it's on its way!

DuckDuckGo is a beacon of hope – thank you.

Curious, why is that of all things so hard to implement compared to the gargantuan task of searching the entire internet? I know nothing about the field of search or big data but it seems to an outsider like it would be almost trivial compared to the rest of what you do.

Adding the current year to your search query often works if you want to find very new results.

However, there can be situations where it gives you malicious results instead.

Some months back a client of mine was searching for some insurance forms and included the year. The actual forms don't change often and the insurance company website did not include a year, so what she got instead was a bunch of malicious results for pages that included all of her terms plus a year. She was using either Bing (because it was the search engine on her browser on Windows....) or Yahoo, but a very similar set of results came up on DuckDuckGo when I checked there. Google's results were clean.

I did report the issue to both Bing and DDG, but I haven't gone back and tested whether results have improved.

Agreed. I use date filters when troubleshooting software issues after new patches/updates; so I can find the freshest discussions.

I agree, I use DuckDuckGo as my main search engine and its awesome except for things that are newish.

Especially for breaking news and articles that just came out like 20 minutes ago.

Google and Bing have nailed this. And I can understand why DuckDuckGo might have trouble in this area.

Literally the only reason I ever drop back into Google.

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