[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I tell ahead of time or quickly what the vintage of a > webpage that looks interesting is?
In general: you can't. If a page does not contain the date it was made, there's no other way to find out. > Here is an example page: > http://dvr.about.com/od/capturetvwithacomputer/ht/htnti.htm > > How can I tell quickly when this was written? This particular one's easy: it contains a meta tag with 21-Aug-2006 in it. Use Ctrl+U in Firefox or Konqueror to see the source text. > A related point is how accurate is it to use the google advanced > search and specify `last 3 mnths' or the like? Zero. Several times I've tried using it, but still pages and posts from 2005, 2004 and older show up. It's useless. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list