Advanced Search page: Type your search term into one of the Find Results
boxes and then select a time period from the Date drop-down list box — cur-
rently your choices are the last 3, 6, or 12 months.
Toolbar/home page: Using the search box is more difficult. You can use the
daterange: command, but you have to convert the date range you want to
use into the Julian calendar. (Search at Google for julian date conver ter to
find a conversion tool.) Using this command, you can search all the new
pages indexed, say, this week, for a particular keyword. However, Google
doesn’t guarantee that daterange: will work; reportedly it sometimes
returns weird results.
Syntax example: rodent racing daterange:2453126- 2453132
A tool will do this work for you, but you won’t find it at Google. Go to the
GooFresh tool at ResearchBuzz (www.researchbuzz.org/archives/
001405.shtml). This tool lets you search Google for updates made today
or yesterday, or within the last week or 30 days.
Ignore sexual content
If a search phrase you’re working with is, um, a double entendre — if you’re
getting a lot of sex-related results when that’s not what you’re looking for —
Google enables you to ignore this sexual content. And no, Google won’t let
you restrict searches to only sexual content.
Google has a feature called SafeSearch, which, by default, is set to medium.
This means Google censors what it thinks are probably explicit images if you
use the Image search (discussed later in the chapter). However, you can also
set SafeSearch to filter both text and images. You can do this two ways:
Advanced Search page: Use SafeSearch once, and it remains turned on
until you click the Google SafeSearch is ON link on the search page.
Preferences page: You find a Preferences link on the home page.
Find similar pages
You can search for pages that are similar to the specified page. Sometimes
this search works well, but often it doesn’t. (I don’t think the Gaelic Language
page at the University of Edinburgh has much in common with Amazon.com.)
Advanced Search page: Enter the URL into the Similar — Find Pages Similar
to the Page text box and click Search. (Again, you need to scroll down the
page a bit to find this.)
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