Have Google provide current results

Getting current information is often one of the most important elements in obtaining high value information. By using the Date Range Filter, you can limit your results to the past day, week, month, year, or search within a specific time range.

The Date Range can be accessed from the Google Search Bar, or from the Advanced Search Page.

Date Range-In Google Search Bar
1. Enter your keywords into the Google Search Bar, click search.
2. Click the Show Options button on the top right of the results page.
3. Open click on the date filter you want to limit your results to, or open the timeline view.

Date Range-In Advanced Search Page
1. Go to the Advanced Search Page.
2. Enter your keywords.
3. Expand the Advanced Search Page.
4. Next to the date box, select the time you want to limit your results to.

How it works
Date is one of the features that have changed the most within Google. For a time, Google would date a webpage based on when it was last crawled by Google’s index, not when it was actually published. Fortunately, Google is now able to distinguish from when a document was published to the web. This is simply a feature that Google’s algorithm is now able to take into account.

Knowing how to use the Date Range feature is essential, since Google tries to provide the most relevant results. One of Google’s major measures for quality is the number of links (or connections) that lead to a certain website or webpage. Websites that have been around for longer often have more links leading to them than new websites, simply because they have had the time to get more links. Old and out of date websites can be shown more frequently since they have more links. Using the Date Range filter overrides Google regular algorithm, allowing you to find the information you are looking for.

Next week, learn how to find exceedingly relevant information with Keyword Location!

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Jeff Alhadeff
Boost eLearning
Research Desk