X Results in the last Y days

[@jot]

Is there a way to get the "X Results in the last Y days" data shown at
the top of web search results via either of the APIs?

Jon.

[Jack Moffitt]

> Is there a way to get the "X Results in the last Y days" data shown at
> the top of web search results via either of the APIs?

There are a bunch of user interaction guidelines that dictate how that
is calculated on our own site, but I can tell you how we do the
calculation.

Each Atom payload has a <timesaved> element, which contains a
millisecond-resolution timestamp (milliseconds since the epoch). A
simple version of the calculation we do would be to take request
enough results from archive to fill a local cache. This may return X
records. The value of <timesaved> in the last returned record is T. So
we'd now "X results in the last NOW - T timeunits".

Does that help? Or were you looking for the user interaction details?

jack.

[Jonathan Markwell]

Hi Jack,

That's really helpful, everything I need to know.

Cheers!

Jon.

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