Google has added some new search syntax and so here is the update to my Google Search syntax tutorial.
Fetch only Fresh results
First one is to narrow down your search to only the most recent web pages. This is particularly important, since Google has started serving fresh results.
Alex Chitu from the unofficial Google Operating system blog has found that we can use as_qdr query parameter to search only for fresh pages.
In order to use this you have to add a new parameter as_qdr at the end of the url like below
http://www.google.com/search?q=ipod&as_qdr=d
The as_qdr parameter can take the following possible values.
- d[number] – past number of days (e.g.: d5)
- w[number] – past number of weeks (e.g: w5)
- y[number] – past number of years (e.g: y5)
More explanations by Matt Cutts and also at Life hacker.
Cricket
Being born in India, circket is there in my blood and the same for Sadeesh Duraisamy who works in Google. Thanks to him and now we can keep an eye on the latest circket scores by just typing the word cricket in Google’s search box.
Well, it’s time for me to watch the do-or-die match with South Africa for India in the latest twenty20 tournament. 🙂