# Another search question.... two or three days
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402
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**Created:** [September 7, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402 "2007-09-07T21:18:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402/1 "2007-09-07T21:18:15Z")
The date range options available are to search “Any date”, “Your last visit”, “Yesterday” and “A week ago” and so on.
I occasionally run a search to find threads I’ve posted in recently (say, after a weekend) to see where they have gotten to, and I suspect I am not the only one to do this. Since I’m usually only looking for things from 2-3 days ago, it seems running a search for “a week ago” puts more demand on our poor capybaras than necessary. I don’t even post all that much, so I assume someone with a higher post rate would be asking that much more. The “your last visit” option isn’t all that great, since on the days I do make it to the boards, I might do so several times over the day, and so it tends to miss things (IME).
Is it at all possible to have a 2 or 3 days ago range inserted in there? Would it even make much of a difference at all?
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402/2 "2007-09-08T03:34:55Z")
Try it now.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2007, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402/3 "2007-09-08T03:44:35Z")
Now _that’s_ service!
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402/4 "2007-09-08T04:06:18Z")
No kidding! Thanks, **TubaDiva**!
**orders flowers and chocolate**
I don’t know how much it will help board performance, but I have to think that every little bit counts!
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402/5 "2007-09-08T04:38:05Z")
Gee, I asked the same question some months ago, and it sank like a stone!
Chocolate indeed!
😛
😃
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402/6 "2007-09-08T05:00:45Z")
You sure it was chocolate and not carob? 😉
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402/7 "2007-09-09T18:46:28Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan]
Gee, I asked the same question some months ago, and it sank like a stone!
Chocolate indeed!
😛
😃
[/QUOTE]
Nothing personal, I assure you.
(My mother has now finally made a full recovery and needs no more surgeries and no further tending to. It’s amazing what you can do when you aren’t a caregiver.)
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### Author:  [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402/8 "2007-09-09T20:32:09Z")
[QUOTE=TubaDiva]
Nothing personal, I assure you.
(My mother has now finally made a full recovery and needs no more surgeries and no further tending to. It’s amazing what you can do when you aren’t a caregiver.)
[/QUOTE]
Good news. Glad she’s doing better.
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### Author:  [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402/9 "2007-09-09T21:01:35Z")
[QUOTE=TubaDiva]
(My mother has now finally made a full recovery and needs no more surgeries and no further tending to. It’s amazing what you can do when you aren’t a caregiver.)
[/QUOTE]
Great news, Tuba.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402/10 "2007-09-10T03:32:12Z")
[QUOTE=TubaDiva]
Nothing personal, I assure you.
(My mother has now finally made a full recovery and needs no more surgeries and no further tending to. It’s amazing what you can do when you aren’t a caregiver.)
[/QUOTE]
Wow, double good news. I am glad for you and your mom. Great news.
Jim
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-search-question-two-or-three-days/418402/11 "2007-09-12T00:40:04Z")
Now that we’re on a roll, how about 2 years ago, 3 years ago, a decade ago…?
How about since the last outage, the penultimate outage, the anti-penultimate outage…
The last decent, original joke…