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I find for my typical searches limiting results to the past 1 year filters out a lot of bogus answers. But I have to manually pick the Time drop down and select 1 year for each search. I’d like to be able to set a Time frame as a default for all of my searches.

Not sure how much to add. Limiting searches by time frames is very useful and I’d like to have a default.

Many, if not most, of the searches I do, I have to go into the time settings and set it to "Past Year". Since I often search for technical questions or relatively current topics, older results are often hopelessly outdated.

I am not asking to change the default behavior, but a toggle to make that setting sticky would be amazing.

A user recognizes a time frame that is most relevant to their needs. They set the desired span and have the option to make that setting stay as is until changed.

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    19 days later

    This isn't "Done"

    hamja asked for an option to make past year searches sticky.

    I don't want to use a bang and type "!past" or anything else, every time I do a search.

    Either remove the Done tag or add the option. Don't offer some crappy work around and claim that you've solved a problem.

      12 days later
      Merged 3 posts from Add an option to set a default time frame.

        gotaug You can't always have all the things you want in life. The request is for a very minor use case, and they probably have to focus on improvements that has an impact on more users.

        a month later
        Vlad changed the title to Set a default Time / Date for searches .

          Make a default date range a global setting, instead of a per-search setting.
          New searches will default to this global setting (and the user can then decide to expand the search to different date ranges only if desired).

          99% of the stuff on the web is outdated. I really don't care about news or articles from 3+ years ago in most of my searches. Most likely, even the entire technology platform they revolve around has changed, so the information just poisons my search results with data rot.

          Much like setting up their lenses or other search features, they would also go to the settings to set a default date range that is then being honored for all future searches. (unless lens or other settings override these defaults).

          Users would to this feature via the search tab in settings. and it would be a similar input control as the one on the kagi search home page for "Time"

          Merged 1 post from Make Time / Date Range a global setting.
            6 months later

            Please allow more configurability of the date and time for searches, especially by providing a per-user global default date and time. As others have mentioned, requiring the user to click the time dropdown on every search is very tedious, and working with dates in general is awkward.

            • The From and To date selector should auto-tab between month, day, and year.
            • The preset relative Date ranges (e.g. Past Month, Past Year) should be customizable / replaceable: Past 18 Months, Past 6 Weeks, etc.
            • The selector should allow a combination of relative date ranges, such as a numerical field and a measurement dropdown, something like "Past __ _______" so the user could enter "120", select "Days", and have a search done for the "Past 120 Days".
            • Most importantly, my account's default search range should be customizable and stored in my settings. I'm already logged in, and Kagi does provide a nice array of settings customizations. Better date searching should be a part of those.

            Thank you!

              4 months later

              Probing for appetite to do anything additional on our end regarding this?

                2 months later

                Vlad Is yours a request for additional comment by internal team, or users? If users: this is a super simple and super valuable little feature. I agree with @Thygrrr that I don't need to see vestigial internet, ever. And if I do, that is the exception not the rule. So filter for 3mo days (my preference for usefully up to date info) or 6mo or 1yr would be my default, and a larger search a manual override. @MrPickles shared lots of good ideas. I'm using your idea now of adding ?q=%s&dr=4 but a strong customizable UI, that ALWAYS remembers my preferences, would be so much better.

                2 months later
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                +1 on implementing a setting that defaults to a selected time range. For me, I almost always search with the "past year" filter on.

                And I can't seem to find how to point my Firefox default search to https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&dr=4, how would I go about to do that? I am using the Kagi extension, if that helps

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