A while back I bitched about the lameness of Google's search page. It's a multi-billion dollar company with a horribly antiquated and useless main page. Unforgivable. My main complaint was that it did not offer enough options with respect to the dating of web sites—a fairly important consideration I think. Anyway I have discovered a few sites who base their searches on Google's engine but do what I derided Google for not doing, namely giving the option to date searches (among some other nifty features.) So if you share my disdain for Google's lame search page check out these alternatives:
http://d8search.com/ This is a basic search page with the option to search by certain date parameters.
http://www.faganfinder.com/google2.html
This page provides a whole wealth of Google search parameters in an easy to use (if not very pretty) format.
http://www.spific.com/
This page aims at being a bit more of a smart search engine that can find sites based on themes or subject areas (still using Google as an engine). I don't know if it's all that but it might be worth a try.
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