Scrapebox custom date ranges doesn`t work

Hi,

I have a problem to set up a specific date range(last 3 years) for Google engine. My settings are based on this guide
So, in a Harvester Engine Configurations I have this query string
http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q={KEYWORD}&num=100&start={PAGENUM}&filter=0&pws=0&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2017%2Ccd_max%3A3%2F21%2F2019

And it still gives me back old results like a 2013,2011... instead what I want - 2017-2019

I would be very grateful for your help.

Thank you.

So when I run your url string it returns results from those date ranges for me, not old results.

Bearing in mind that googles definition of results from then could be different then what you think.

Lets say a article is written in 2011, but in 1017 it undergoes some updates. Google may find the changes and class it as 2017. Google isn't exactly clear on how they decide what year a result fits into etc..

Based upon what are determining that its old results?

Thanks for reply.

My scrape results should be articles published in custom data range. I scrape only from specific domains(e.g. site:domain1.com), So in my case, all articles should be
no older than from 2017. But it returns me articles from 2011, 2012 - any date. Those articles are not updated, no new comments.

I was using predefined data range Google Year with this query http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q={KEYWORD}&num=100&start={PAGENUM}&filter=0&&tbs=qdr:y
And this works perfect. All results are max. 1 year old.

But this issue is not so big after all. From 200 returned articles, maybe 10% is <2017 old.

Thornus said:

Thanks for reply.

My scrape results should be articles published in custom data range. I scrape only from specific domains(e.g. site:domain1.com), So in my case, all articles should be
no older than from 2017. But it returns me articles from 2011, 2012 - any date. Those articles are not updated, no new comments.

I was using predefined data range Google Year with this query http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q={KEYWORD}&num=100&start={PAGENUM}&filter=0&&tbs=qdr:y
And this works perfect. All results are max. 1 year old.

But this issue is not so big after all. From 200 returned articles, maybe 10% is <2017 old.

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I mean basically scrapebox is seen as a browser by google. So to google it looks like someone is going to google.com in a browser and putting your query into the search box and selecting your date range.

Scrapebox doesn't change the results. So if you go digging thru the results for the same queries in a browser, you would find the same thing. the thing is google wants to put up big numbers, but they know 99.5% of people are not even going to leave page 1. So as you dig into the SERPs they put up less relevant stuff.

So I suspect that with that date range query combined with the keyword query that its just a case where google is inflating the results. I mean they would not call it inflated, but they would give some reason as to why they were included. But just because they consider them relevant because the letter "a" was changed from lower case to upper case or something random (that could happen to certain articles due to plugins on the site or anything) and then google now includes it in that updated date range.

But if its not so big of a deal then Im glad it works for you