"The way google does it in "search tools" for time choice is interesting"
Google actually does it about four different ways. There're defaults for common cases like past day/week/month, but there's also software that tries to guess if a particular date range is interesting, eg:
Then there's "Latest", which actually does update in real time, if it has new results. And then there's "Custom date range", which lets you pick with a calendar widget and then requires that you hit Search again, much like MoreOfIt does.
Google actually does it about four different ways. There're defaults for common cases like past day/week/month, but there's also software that tries to guess if a particular date range is interesting, eg:
http://www.google.com/search?q=jessie+slaughter
Then there's "Latest", which actually does update in real time, if it has new results. And then there's "Custom date range", which lets you pick with a calendar widget and then requires that you hit Search again, much like MoreOfIt does.