Searching by Julian date range?

Works sometimes, but not always?

[Winooski]

Per [url=http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/6060.htm]http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/6060.htm[/url] and [url=http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0605-dates.html]http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0605-dates.html[/url], I know there are two tools for helping narrow down when a page was added to or updated in Google's (main?) index:

Fagan Finder's "Google Ultimate Interface": [url=http://www.faganfinder.com/google.html]http://www.faganfinder.com/google.html[/url]
ResearchBuzz's GooFresh: [url=http://www.researchbuzz.com/toolbox/goofresh.shtml]http://www.researchbuzz.com/toolbox/goofresh.shtml[/url]

...However, I'm having a tough time locating a page I [B]know[/B] is in the index via this method, i.e., I can find the page when I plug the following into Google's search field...

[i]"THE-KEYWORD" site:www.THE-DOMAIN-NAME.com[/i]

...but not when I add the "daterange" parameter to it:

[i]daterange:2449718-2452609 "THE-KEYWORD" site:www.THE-DOMAIN-NAME.com[/i]

I know Google supposedly doesn't support it, but it does seem to work...sometimes... Is it really too buggy to try to work with?

[GoogleGuy]

Hmm. Try broadening your search range, maybe? Start with 44 B.C. and go to A.D. 3000, and it might show up then..

[Winooski]

Hey GG, thanks! Let's see, I just have to change the first one to, uh, let's see...HEEEEY, waitaminute! [:)]

...So was that your way of saying, "Don't go there"?...

[RBuzz]

As I say on the GooFresh page, Google doesn't officially support the date-search method -- if you want to do date search that way you'll have to use AltaVista, or Teoma (though I couldn't get Teoma's date search to work the last time I tried their advanced search.) On the other hand, you can use Google's supported date search on their advanced page, which allows you to search within the last x months.

[vitaplease]

Googleguy, is Google chicken to allow more recent searching?

The beauty of Google is amongst others its Fresh spidering/indexing.

Lets say I'm a freak on submarines..

Would it not be great if I can search on most recent additions?

Surely not a subject to be collected with the beta news function?

[Winooski]

RBuzz, thanks for the reply, and many, many thanks for publishing your tool in the first place.

OK, so it's a "isn't intended to work often" function. Sigh. I imagine Google isn't eager to provide this level of functionality because of the SEO ramifications, i.e., it would be of tactical use to people trying to get insight about the spidering and indexing processes. Can't blame a guy for trying, though...

[mfagan]

What do we *want* in a date-based search? Do we want pages that were updated during that time, or only pages that were created during that time?

If we want the former, we still probably don't want a page that only fixed spelling, but we do want pages that added a paragraph.

Btw, I finally got around to adding 2003 as an option on my Google Interface.