How do I filter my search by date on Bing?

This of course is the most user unfriendly feature I can imagine. I have tried it and it rarely works.

Perhaps this in Microsoft's secret plan to allow Google Search to remain #1.

Bing is for mindless idiots who don't want the latest news, prices, etc.

I would prefer to like Bing, since I live inside the MS world of Windows 8 mobile and desktop but Bing makes being itself a last place choice.

How do I filter my search by date on Bing?

You can find some obscure tips about additions to make to the URL in your Address bar.  Instead of bothering with them when I need this service I just go to Google where it is at least supported by its UI even though it is still rather obscure.   I guess both of them don't like us doing such searches but in BING's case it looks like they really don't want us doing it?  ; }

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Robert Aldwinckle

You can do that if you change the bing settings to United states english, you will get the filter next to the XXXXX results below the search text box by default it will be anytime click on it and you will see the options all week, past 24 hrs, past week and past month. there is no option for a year but still better than nothing.

Here's one solution. It doesn't allow you to specify particular date ranges but is better than nothing.

tl;dr - Use a special kind of bookmark that takes a your search terms and returns Bing results with an optional date filter (past .

Mostly copied from my answer here: http://www.bing.com/blogs/webmaster/f/12248/t/652228.aspx?pi239031353=8#

The basic answer is to type &tbs=qdr at the end of a url after searching, but this can be made a lot easier with a minute's work.

Firefox (and maybe the others) have a type of bookmark that activates whenever you type a keyword in the address bar. Mine is set up so that I only have to type b  in the address bar followed by my search. So, b no date filter will automatically go to bing and search for no date filter. Additionally, it puts tbs=qdr in the final url so the date option is always available.

To do this in firefox, create a new bookmark (ctrl+b to open bookmark viewer, right click -> new bookmark). Set 'Location' as http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s&tbs=qdr and set 'Keyword' as b or anything else you'd like. Now you can search Bing as described above. If you automatically want to restrict to a particular date range, instead use the following for bookmark 'Location'.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s&filters=ex1%3a%22ez0%22&tbs=qdr  - any time

**http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s&filters=ex1%3a%22ez1%22&tbs=qdr**  -  past day

**http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s&filters=ex1%3a%22ez2%22&tbs=qdr**  -  past week

**http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s&filters=ex1%3a%22ez3%22&tbs=qdr**  -  past month

Hope this helps. It really is a pain to only sometimes get the date option. With this solution, one can easily perform searches with only keyboard input (no manually opening bing, clicking on the search box, etc.). The actions: 'ctrl+t, alt+d, 'b <search string>' are all you need to open a new tab, focus on address bar, and query bing so that it gives you results with a date option.

(An aside: the bookmark hotkey trick can be set up to work with other searchable sites: wikipedia, google, allmusic, youtube, dictionary, ..., and each has their own hotkey. ex. 'w Annapurna' redirects to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna. It's just a lot easier to type that than to navigate to wikipedia and then search.)