Blaugust: Four Tools for Easier Date-Based Searching

Tara Calishain – “Do your Internet research tasks include a lot of date-based searching? I find that date-based searching helps a lot when searching historical (and man do I feel weird saying that about stuff that happened just a couple decades ago) events, companies, people and information. The results you’ll find when searching for something in its contemporary context is very different when you search for it in current web sites. In today’s article I’ll show you four tools — two general, two specialized — for doing date-based search on Google. All of these tools are part of Search Tweaks, and like all Search Tweaks tools they’re free to use and free of ads. We’ll start with Back That Ask Up…”

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