[Almost] Real-Time Google Search With An URL Hack

[Kuiren]

When you expand the options on a Google search result page, you can restrict the results to things like the past week, the past 24 hours, or “Recent results”. But with a little tweaking to the URL, you can change that to "past X minutes" or even "past X seconds". This can be done by changing the a parameter called QDR - perhaps standing for Query Date Range, in the URL.

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 "n5" and you'll see results discovered in the last 5 minutes - or "s30" to see results from the last 30 seconds.

Here is an example with this in action:


-this search query will display search results for the term "web" in the last 5 minutes:

google.com/search?q=web&output=search&tbs=qdr:n5&tbo=1

-the following search query will display results for the term "internet" for the past 30 seconds:

google.com/search?q=internet&output=search&tbs=qdr:s30&tbo=1

Found this on a blog. Looks pretty tight.

Is there any use to this? Discuss.

[Syncness]

TV shows that are just released, and you want them directly downloaded instead of torrent.

All that I can think of atm.

[Kuiren]

Hmm yes, it can be used to narrowing down something that just came up. Like a tv show, a major event, or anything in general.

I guess this is one way, but I wonder if there's ways to "exploit" this feature.