14 DAY TRIAL // Google quietly introduced a new feature to its popular search engine, allowing you to find more relevant results. The new function included in the Advanced Search tab enables you to choose a certain date for the websites indexed by Google from 4 options: anytime, past 3 months, past 6 months and past year. Although the feature wasn't officially announced, Google's engineer Matt Cutts presented it as an useful way to find information indexed in the recent period.
"Previously, I believe Google estimated the age of a url as the last time that we fetched that page. Given how quickly Google refreshes its main index, that didn't mean quite as much recently. Now for date-based search, Google estimates url ages by the first date that we saw a url," Matt said. "Just a handy search tip for power users. Thanks to the Googlers who improved date-based search."
The best search engine on the Internet is periodically improved with lots of new features as the parent company Google wants to keep it up-to-date with the latest users' demands. The competition is very tough but until now, Google managed to face it and remained the leader of the search engines category although numerous companies announced their plans to compete with the search giant.
Take the example of Wikipedia. The Internet encyclopedia sustained that they will release a revolutionary search technology this year that will be able to compete with the popular Google and steal an important part of users. However, the big G remained focused on its own solutions and every once in a while, it updates them with impressive packs of improvements.
At this time, it's very hard to say which one is the most powerful search engine that would be able to compete with Google, as the main rival Yahoo recorded a considerable low percent of searches in comparison with the Mountain View company.