Googley Real Time Search
September 14, 2009
Manipulating Google urls is a bit of an exotic hobby, probably less popular than polo in Harrod’s Creek, Kentucky. I wanted to pass along a tip that appeared in the Google Operating System Web log, “Even More Recent Google Search Results.” The GOS blog points to Ran Geva as the person who discovered a way to get Google to display the mosst recent index updates for a query. The syntax is, according to GOS:
The date restriction feature is quite flexible, but you need to know the syntax used by Google’s URLs: tbs=qdr:[name][value] where [name] can be one of these values: s (second), n (minute), h (hour), d (day), w (week), m (month), y (year), while [value] is a number.
Here is an example for the query “obama”: http://www.google.com/search?q=obama&tbs=qdr:s45
To make Google real time search user friendly, just create a short cut to a known good query and then substitute your own search string after the q=. If you have a good memory, use the string tbs=qdr:[name][value]. The name value pair allows you to control the time interval.
If you prefer point-and-click real time search, keep specialists such as Collecta, ITpints, Scoopler, or one of the user friendly services in mind.
Stephen Arnold, September 14, 2009
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there have been plenty of startups that have attacked this space. In addition of the ones you mentioned – http://sency.com recently launched offering a few unique angles to the space….