Google answers Twitter's real-time search
Google has rolled out its answer to Twitter's much-discussed real-time search. Beginning today, the world's largest search engine will offer a new "search options" page that gives users the power to instantly sort results according to certain, predefined criteria. Among other things, you can leap to what Google describes as the …
I stumbled across this accidentally today, and thought "how did I never see this before" !
Nice, but I'd also like "last month" and "last 2 months" etc.
I was looking for forum posts regarding something that has changed in the last month. "last week" didn't give me any results.. "last year" gave me hits relating to changes made 4 months ago..
Unfortunately, this means that Google is become less and less of a relevant search engine for me. I originally used it for research purposes (not work-related, but still research) but now that world+dog has a website and lots of cross-links, I am finding that Google's answers are becoming less and less relevant.
Want an example? Even just a few years ago, you could still search on "vampire" and "merlin" (as separate searches, natch) and get the "historical" records of the origins of these myths. In other words, you could easily get to the "academic" answers. Now? I have to filter through tons of dross about Twilight and Buffy (and other recent fictional books/movies/TV) and fight my way through the myriads discussing a poor TV adaptation of the (semi-)original "La Morte d'Arthur".
I want my academic results back, dammit!
Isn't that what google scholar is for?
http://scholar.google.co.uk/
