The other day I came upon an article that brought to light a hidden google feature for “live search” over at Search Engline Land Find What’s New In The Last Minute Or Second.

Search results are only as good as their relevancy. Sometimes the highest ranking results are stale but the google spider seems to like it regardless. If i’m not happy w/ results or I need timely results I find myself searching on Twitter or Delicious to get some good ‘ol human suggestions.

Now that I can get timely Google results I’ll add this tool in my arsenal. Only thing it’s a pain in the ass to remember the extra get params (&tbs=qdr:X##&tbo=1) that Google needs appended to the given search url so I made a bookmarklet to make things KISS. After your search, just trigger the bookmarklet (defaults to 1 day) and go from there.

Google Liveify « drag to your toolbar

Google Live Reference

Just add these to the end of your search url if you want to override the 24hour default.

&tbs=qdr:X##&tbo=1

The X## portion gets replaced with:

• s## for number of seconds in the past: &tbs=qdr:s45&tbo=1
• n## for number of minutes &tbs=qdr:n5&tbo=1
• h## for number of hours &tbs=qdr:h2&tbo=1

You get the idea. Enjoy!