Google's new "freshness" update. Affects ~35% of searches

Re:Google's new "freshness" update. Affects ~35% of searches by nyellin on Thursday November 03, 2011 @03:26PM (#3193299)

I wish Google catered more to geeks.

I understand how Google indexes the web. Let me control my own queries. Give us geeks the ability to enable/disable freshness, even if it means appending &fresh=0 to the URL

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Re:Google's new "freshness" update. Affects ~35% of searches by jsnell on Thursday November 03, 2011 @05:25PM (#3193759)

They already give you tools all the way to an exact date range search! How much more control do you want.

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Re:Google's new "freshness" update. Affects ~35% of searches by nyellin on Thursday November 03, 2011 @05:56PM (#3193849)

I didn't realize it when I posted.

Here is Matt Cutts' explanation of the date options:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/useful-google-feature-better-d...

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Re:Google's new "freshness" update. Affects ~35% of searches by Sniffnoy on Thursday November 03, 2011 @06:53PM (#3194055)

I still wish there a sort by date option, for when I'm trying to find the oldest occurrence of something...

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Re:Google's new "freshness" update. Affects ~35% of searches by sneaky_ruds on Thursday November 03, 2011 @08:25PM (#3194347)

In fact there is. You have to click on one of the other date options before it shows up. For instance, http://www.google.com/webhp?&ie=UTF-8#q=occupy+oakland&#... shows results from the last three days, sorted by date.

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Re:Google's new "freshness" update. Affects ~35% of searches by Sniffnoy on Thursday November 03, 2011 @09:21PM (#3194519)

Huh, that's good to know. Unfortunately what I was looking for was a reverse sort by date...

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