Near-Real-time search on Google?, Altsearchengines (Sept 13)
Google can help you find new pages on the Web - right down to the last minute - through Search Options. One of the time periods is 24 hours but you can hack the url to change the period.
"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."
This does work but the qdr is not always in exactly that format, and it is fiddly work to change the values. [m=month, d=day, n=minute, s=second]
Results for the short time frame come mainly (entirely?) from Google News.
Posted by Gwen at September 14, 2009 02:37 PM