Google has changed the way it retrieves searches, based on the date range, in the advanced search page and promised Linux users it will be developing more Google applications for Linux OS this year.

Google currently offers Picasa and Google Earth for the Linux OS; however, In a presentation from Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, Google highlighted criteria for the development of more Google apps for the Linux OS.

The presentation notes that some software will be open source and will support most distributions; although, no word on which applications (Desktop, Sketchup) will be released.

In addition, Google has changed the way its date-based search works. In the advanced search, Google allows you to return results on web pages that were updated in the last 3, 6, or 12 months.

Using this feature, Google would previously return results based on the last time the URL was crawled; this method simply didn’t work as Google would crawl many pages frequently and wouldn’t necessarily mean the content was fresh.

Google now estimates the age of the website by the first time it recognized the URL; this means that Google’s date search will now only return results from pages that either didn’t exist or were not indexed at the time.

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Entry was posted on Monday, June 18th, 2007 at 7:27 pm under Google, Linux.

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