How To Find Web Sites That Have Been Updated Recently

Is there anything more frustrating than slogging through countless search engine results to get to the one site you think will help you, only to find-after you clicked on it-that it hasn't been updated since...1999? If you need the most up-to-date information on a particular topic you might have a problem. Don't you wish there was an easy way of locating web sites that have been recently updated?

Depending on the search engine you're using, there is, and it's not as difficult as you might think. Some of the more popular ones make restricting your search to recently updated sites a relatively simple task.

If you're conducting your search in Google, for example, just follow these easy steps:

1. From the homepage click Advanced Search (located to the right of the search entry box).
2. On The Advanced Search page, in Find Results, specify your search terms.
3. Now find Date (it's the fourth item down in the left-hand column). Click on the drop-down menu next to the phrase, Return web pages updated in the..., and select one of the following: past 3 months, past 6 months or past year.
4. When you've made your choice, just click the Google Search button (at the top of the page on the right) and you're done! You've just told Google to return search results from only those web sites that have been updated recently!

In Yahoo! Search you'd follow a similar set of steps:

1. On the Yahoo! Search page click Advanced Search (located to the right of the Web Search button).
2. On the resulting Advanced Search page in, Show results with, specify your search terms.
3. Now find Updated and click on the drop-down menu next to it. Select one of the following: within the past 3 months, within the past 6 months, or within the past year.
4. After you've made your selection click the Yahoo! Search button (upper right of the page) and you're done! You've just told Yahoo! Search to return search results from only those web sites that have been recently updated!

When you know this little secret, it's a whole lot easier to find the freshest content on the topic of your choice!