Feature Request: Option to Filter Search by Date Range

Hey All,

I am enjoying the minimalist; privacy-first approach Mojeek offers. It is a breath of fresh air compared to mainstream search engines. I have been using it more frequently and had a feature idea that might be helpful for a lot of users: a date range filter for search results.

There are times when I am trying to find recent articles such as when I was researching tools while going through an AWS DevOps Course & it would have been super handy to narrow the search results to just the last week or month.

Also i have check this How to prevent particular website(s) from showing up in search results when using address bar I totally get that Mojeek aims to keep things simple, so even just a basic option in the advanced search settings would be awesome.

Thank you.:slight_smile:

date range

good news, you already can. since:20000101 before:20100101 britney spears - Mojeek Search

I think the Mojeek team has mentioned in this forum somewhere about its limitations mainly centring around having an accurate date associated with a page, but it works well for a variety of searches.

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Welcome @Adanna and thank you @ricardo81.

Yes, has been discussed in a few places here but the main thing to see is the support page that details how to filter by date: Search Operators

could searching by date be made easier?

it’s probably not often people use this and so one has to remember the operators and type them out - how about a calendar icon that opens a menu with a slider for the year and 2 sliders for the date range?

date limited searches can be super valuable, yet using this is less than intuitive i think (not just mojeek)

Yes, it could. And at some point we expect to introduce it. The vastly bigger challenge is indexing reliable dates for a page; let’s just say it’s complicated. Of course, we are continually working to improve it.

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