Mashable:
Even though Microsoft has blasted us with advertising for their new search engine Bing, we still use Google.
Wednesday, we asked how often you used Google. Over half, 55 percent said they last used Google 5 minutes ago, 18 percent said 1 hour ago, 24 percent said 1 day ago and an unbelieveable 3 percent said they never used the search engine.
Google is rolling out new search options which include the ability to search within a specific date range, shopping site filters, a visited pages filter, and an option to see only results from Google’s book, blog, and news search tools.
The “past hour” filter is certainly the most interesting addition, though. While Google offers other timely ways to get information — Google News and Google Trends being atop that list — the vast majority of users simply turn to its search engine.
By giving users the option to filter results from the past hour, they’ll see more current news and information as opposed to the Wikipedia (Wikipedia) entries and other high ranking content that dominate the top of many results in regular search.
Earlier this week, Google (Google) also added “hot trends” to search results, a move that might portend Twitter (Twitter)-like trending topics being integrated throughout at some point down the road.
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