Exploring the new before and after operators in Google

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Exploring the new before and after operators in Google

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Trend towards cutting down on search functionality (remember, for example, the recent cancellation of the info: operator by Google ), and then suddenly its expansion happens. The new operators are, in fact, some analogues of the Yandex operator date: and allow you to filter search results in certain time periods by the date of the last modification of documents (in terms of Google, and rather opaque, as we will see below). Filters like these are useful for a number of SEO analytics tasks, and it's generally encouraging that Google now has this feature as well.

In this case, there was no unification of the search functionality of the two largest search engines on the Runet, and although using the before: and after: operators in Google and date: in Yandex, you can solve similar problems, however, the logic of using the operators still differs . So, for example, in order to find documents relevant to a query for a certain Tunisia WhatsApp Number List date in Google, unlike Yandex, you will have to construct a structure of two operators. And, as we will see below, it is still impossible to find the correct solution. In this article, I will try to explore some of the properties of the new Google operators, taking as a "guinea pig" the site of my SEO blog.

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Google shows 63 pages from this site in the search results, and, due to the small number of pages, this number is easy to check by simply counting the number of results per page, with a configured output of 100 results: However, applying the before: or after: operators to the search results with values ​​that obviously cover all possible results leaves only 40 results in the output: And indeed, you can find indexed pages from the site, the application of the before: and after: operators to which gives an empty output. For example: It turns out that not all pages have a date in terms of the before: and after: operators (and in this case it is almost a quarter of the pages from the site), even despite the presence of the date in the snippet. This fact should be taken into account when analyzing the issuance using these operators.
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