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You can type in sort:date after your query or use the drop down next to the search box.
but where is this info given (except on this forum post)
Please offer an explanation of "bang" Perhaps as a sticky:
Thanks
ps where is "end quote"
Please offer an explanation of "bang" Perhaps as a sticky:See this page:
!bangs act as redirects so, after you land on that page, you're subject to that site's privacy policy. Showing Google's results on our page would be a violation of their terms of service but we hope to fill that gap by providing a lot more date functionality. On dates, check out: http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/215622-datesRe: Filter search results by date
4 months ago
Have to agree that DDG is useless to me without the date filter.
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Just add a Dropdown ...
However this is not the case. In my case it displayed the results as it normally would only sorted differently.
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/7t0V6xR.png
1. What's the problem? The problem is that, from a marketing and R&D perspective, DDG have acquired an audience and customers with an initial belief in DDG's service. DDG's customers/users repeatedly set out (very well) a need for a specific feature: a simple mechanism, probably in menu form, to filter searches by date. DDG staff, much as we love what they've done, failed to implement this feature and obfuscated their answers instead of delivering simple, apparently honest, responses.
2. What's the reason for the problem? The reason for the problem is that, for a variety of reasons, searchers wish to move away from big G. In parts, this wish is prompted by privacy issues and G's manifest control of searches.
3. How can DDG resolve this problem? DDG can a) provide a simple date filter menu similar to G's, and b) provide an API for developers to write plugins, one of which will inevitably be a date filter menu.
4. Would DDG benefit from solving the problem? The European Court of Justice in Schrems[1] caused major problems for G. It opened a short but very powerful window of about 6-12 months for search providers like DDG to attack G's market share and acquire massive audience. This, in turn, will boost DDG's business model, opportunity for growth, and attractiveness to investors.
5. Threats by DDG's failure to quickly solve the date filter problem include credibility failure, killing the business model and repelling audience.
a) As regards credibility failure, this thread says it all. 5 years without a competent answer is a good way to be perceived as geeks: all brains, no common sense.
b) As for killing the business model, would you invest in someone that skirts around answers to problems?
c) And as for repelling audience, how many searchers have come to DDG, been disappointed without a date filter, and gone away, and have then told others but not DDG? Don't stab the baby!
I've seen this type of problem so many times over 40+ years in business and project development. It could be solved with agile, a one day scrum or a change of leader. First resolution could be achieved with a tardy secondary search filter (as others have indicated), and refined later. However, in my view it would be wonderful if DDG would provide an API to allow the wider development community to pitch in. Carrying the worldwide developer community could advance DDG's ambition at speed.
HTH!
[1] See opinion first, then decision:
Any luck on gthi as all?