Google old content posted before a specific date
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/15
Steps:
- Start with something like https://www.google.com/search?q=”did+you+hear+about+the+man”+”he%27s+0K+now”
- Clicking
Toolsfollowed byAny Time, thenCustom rangeoften does not show a dialog. - Appending
&tbs=qdr:yto the URL magically enables that popup:
https://www.google.com/search?q=”did+you+hear+about+the+man”+”he%27s+0K+now”&tbs=qdr:y - After filling it in, you get a very different URL like https://www.google.com/search?q=”did+you+hear+about+the+man”+”he%27s+0K+now”&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:,cd_max:01-01-2007
This is how I found the post in Did you hear about the man who got cooled to absolute zero? He’s 0K now.
I think cdr stands for custom date range and qdr for a built in date range as after searching for the abbreviations, I found [WayBack] Google Search URL Request Parameters | DETECTED that discusses tbm and tbo in addition to tbs.
The trick above is the successor of [WayBack] Filter Google Results by Date with a URL Trick which appended &as_qdr=d.
–jeroen
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