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Did you ever want to know what’s happening on the internet in real-time? Yes you say, I use Twitter! Well good for you, I guess I can’t teach you anything new since you already know everything… So go on and don’t read the rest of the post because you are so smart and successful…

OK, you are still here. Good! By now you probably know about the “Search Options” feature Google introduced in May.  One of its features is to limit the search results by time frame. By default the available time frames are: Any time, Past year, Past week, Recent results and Past 24 hours. Past 24 hours is nice but still far away from Real-time. What Google isn’t telling you is that you can search in the past minute and even in the past second. The trick is to change a parameter in the URL that will narrow down the time frames. Let take a look at a simple example:

Search for Barack Obama in the past 24 hours:

http://www.google.com/search?q=barack%20obama&hl=en&output=search&tbs=qdr:d&tbo=1

Notice the URL parameter qdr:d. I assume qdr stands for Query Date Range (sounds about right). All you have to do to search for the query in the past minute is to change the parameter to qdr:n, and for the past second to qdr:s.

Past Minute:

http://www.google.com/search?q=barack%20obama&hl=en&output=search&tbs=qdr:n&tbo=1

Search results from the past minute

Past second:

http://www.google.com/search?q=barack%20obama&hl=en&output=search&tbs=qdr:s&tbo=1

Couldn’t find any result – but hey it’s in the past second, how cool is that?

Oh and of course there is also “Past hour” – but that’s old news:

http://www.google.com/search?q=omgili&hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=qdr:h

UPDATE:

You can also set a time frame in minutes like past 10 minutes:

http://www.google.com/search?q=barack%20obama&hl=en&output=search&tbs=qdr:n10&tbo=1

or past 30 seconds:

http://www.google.com/search?q=barack%20obama&hl=en&output=search&tbs=qdr:s30&tbo=1

Just add a number after the appropriate time frame (h = hours, n = minutes, s = seconds). For example: qdr:n10 will return results from the past 10 minutes.

“Netcraft confirms it – Twitter is dying”

Ran Geva,

Omgili CEO

I am happy to let you know about a new Firefox extension we released. Omgili Opinions is a very unobtrusive addition to your Firefox browser. It will look for discussions and opinions about the current page you are browsing and if it found them, it will show you a small button near the address bar. To view those discussions, simply click on that button.

If you want to find deeper conversations & insights about a product you found on Amazon, if you want to see what people think about a certain movie on IMDB or a video clip on Youtube, and the comments aren’t very insightful – let Omgili find the most interesting discussions and communities about any page you are browsing.

So check it out: http://opinions.omgili.com/

Here are some screenshots:

As usual we welcome your feedback….

Thank you,

Ran Geva

Omgili CEO