Tried that, even across the max of 1000 results. However, even that
doesn't guarantee 'new' results, especially for large sites, like
governement sites. The relevance ranking is pretty dominant.

Does the 'not yet' in your reply imply that this behavior may change
in the future?

Rene

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "Vik Singh" <viksi@...> wrote:
>
> Not yet available on web
>
> You can do a web search, take 50 results, and sort by the date field
on the client to find newer results
>
> Best
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri Nov 14 07:15:33 2008
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Specifying age or date with web searches
>
>
> We really appreciate the additional terms that are included in the
> output. Since full text isn't available, this is the next best thing
> to be able to do some really useful classification stuff.
>
> Earlier I was pointed out that some additional parameters can be used
> to specify a date range orderby=date and age=1d
> However, this only seems to work with News search, web search seems to
> default to 3 months.
>
> Is there a possibility to specify a date range for web searches as
> well? We're developing an app that will allow users to get alerted on
> new pages that appear for one of their selected topics.
> Not all the sites that we want to monitor are part of the `news'
> search. In Europe the list of sites that are classified as `news' site
> is quite arbitrary.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Rene de Vries
>