Make Google Search Real-Time With This URL Hack
Google web search results can be limited by timeframe using the "search options" link on every page, but one startup company CEO discovered today that searches can also be limited to results indexed minutes or seconds ago by making a simple change to the search results page URL.
Startup search engine Omgili's CEO Ran Geva wrote on his company blog today that time-limited search results pages include a parameter called QDR - perhaps standing for Query Date Range. You can change the number following the letters qdr and change the timeframe for your search.
By default when you click on "search options" and limit a search to the last day, the qdr appears as "d." Change that to "n" and you'll be limited to results from the last minute, to "n10" and you'll see results discovered in the last 10 minutes - or "s30" to see results from the last 30 seconds. It couldn't be simpler. Here's a sample search for Portland Oregon Coffee with the search options already turned on.
Geva isn't the first person to discover this, but he's the first we've seen place it within the context of real-time search and we didn't know about it until reading his blog post.
What does it mean? We're not sure yet. We did notice, though, that a Twitter search for the word "pirates" brings back 2 results in the last minute - and Google brings back 9. Results for many queries, limited to just the last few minutes, are fairly interesting.
Google co-founder Larry Page famously said of real time search back in May "we have to do it."
If more granular controls were surfaced, would you use them? I've bookmarked a search within the last 60 minutes - we'll see how that compares with other efforts like placing Twitter search results on top of Google pages. At the very least we can say good job finding this, Ran Geva!
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This is a pretty neat trick. It can be REALLY helpful for searching multiple news sites at one time while trying to find out what's going on... I could see this used to track storms and other catastrophic events in near real-time.
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September 13, 2009 12:17 PM
I didn't know this worked with seconds as well; very nice. But I recall the syntax goes like this: [&as_qdr=s30]. Apparently both syntaxes do the trick, but this one is a little bit shorter. Of course, as you've mentioned, Google should work on more granular controls!
didn't know this worked with seconds as well; very nice. But I recall the syntax goes like this: [&as_qdr=s30]. Apparently both syntaxes do the trick, but this one is a little bit shorter. Of course, as you've mentioned, Google should work on more granular controls...!
This is sweet.
If you use Firefox + Greasemonkey you can download a great script to allow you visualise Twitter results directly on the Google's page results -
userscripts.org/scripts/show/45091
You can twik it a little bit and make it BING or Yahoo.
Give a try, worthy
Lucio Ribeiro
marketingeasy.net
Interesting. If you include "site:twitter.com" in your query and then apply this 60 minute filter, you get real-time Twitter search results ranked by Google relevancy (as opposed to the the reverse chronological ranked results found in Twitter's own search results). For example, the first result right now for "Federer site:twitter.com" is from the US Open's Twitter feed...
http://j.mp/VTV7f
Those are arguably better results than the same search on Twitter...
http://twitter.com/#search?q=Federer
does anyone remember the days when the use case for search was more than just "type a keyword and give me the right answer", aka "advanced search"
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
which includes items such as date ranges (although the ui doesn't indicate you can do
Google has been neglecting the advanced search options lately. Hell, ever tried searching the usenet archives in Google Groups recently?
This is a very nice and helpful trick in Google Search. Thanks for sharing!
Nice and informative post.
QDR concept is interesting and nice. This would surely reduce the search time, refine the search, and give more real time search with latest trends in the web technology. Google's innovations are unlimited. Real time search is a pretty needed feature.
Good deal.This is a pretty neat trick. It can be REALLY helpful for searching multiple news sites at one time while trying to find out what's going on. Apparently both syntaxes do the trick, but this one is a little bit shorter.Real-time Twitter search results ranked by Google relevancy.
Google can work on more granular controls...!
Be aware, for many resources, the "real time" of the Google indexing moment may be very different (i.e. much later) than the time the information was really published on the web.
Make Google Search Real-Time With This URL Hack http://bit.ly/GaVE [from http://twitter.com/marshallk/statuses/3959875010]
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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September 14, 2009 8:14 AM
Updated in last 30 secs.....Wow!!! didnt know that but we can use the feature from search options like last updated in..... Good find anyways.
You can try the real-time search by ticking on Google 3600 at http://ultimasurf.com . You can see the result of the pages indexed by Google for the past 1 hour. Google Sandbox, Wonder Wheel, and Timeline are also available there.
@#15
The ultimasurf.com is amazing. Thanks so much for posting. I was on earlier today and was like a kid in a candy store.
Yes, i agree with Roschelle !!
Cheers
It is great! But the problem is that when Google search shows that a page was updated 10 seconds ago, it basically means that in the Google search database that page was updated 10 seconds back, but in actual reality that page might have been updated or published on web may be a few hours back. The reason for this being the fact that there is always a time delay between the time when a page is published on web and the time when Google indexes that page in its search database. This time delay could vary from a few seconds to a few hours (or even more) depending upon the popularity of the website where the new page is published and/or the regularity with which such website is updated since that perhaps determines as to how often Google crawlers would visit that site.
Therefore, in effect, real-time search in Google parlance means "when it is indexed by Google" and NOT "when it is actually published on the web". On the other hand, Twitter real-time search is actually real-time search for the simple reason that it searches only the tweets that have been published on its own site (i.e., Twitter) and not the whole web (and, Google search has to index the whole web, so there is likely to be some delay, especially for those sites which do not send immediate updation message, such as non-blogs).
I only wish they offered an option to get results *before* a date. When something hits the news, it is nice to see what Google found out about it BEFORE it was in the headlines and everyone talked about it.
This is really a great idea I am surprised it's not in wider use already.
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