how to show dates in Google search results | HOW-TO of the week

Sometimes, you might want to know the date of a webpage. This information can be hard to find, but there is a way to show the dates of webpages in Google search results. This feature can be especially helpful if you're trying to cite a website for a paper (using MLA, for instance) and can't find any dates listed on the site itself.

To begin, go to Google and search for something. If you're trying to figure out the date of a specific webpage, type in a phrase you know will bring up that page.

Here are my results for "Martha Snell Nicholson":

Now, select the URL of the current Google search page. At the very end of that URL, type or paste the following:

&as_qdr=y15

Load the new URL, and results should appear with their corresponding dates:

"collect as much of the following information as possible both for your citations and for your research notes:

. . .

publishing date"

Purdue Online Writing Lab (about MLA citations)