How to filter Bing results by Date? The Date filter is missing on bing, here is a work-around

 

Intro:

On bing.com can I filter the All results by Date using the UI?

More Information:

I have used bing.com from Edge Chromium, Edge Mobile, Google Chrome, logged into MS365 and logged out and in a private window.

The result is the same: I am unable to filter search results by date using the UI, the “Any time” drop down is gone.

Question:

Is there any solution besides tweaking the query string or adding special condition to a search?

Can we get the "Any time" drop down returned to the Bing search screen for All?

I would love to use Bing but without a Date filter feature that at least mimics Duckduckgo or at best matches google there is NO way I would ever recommend Bing for the business or home.

Solution:

From below Attempted Workarounds:

1) Add ‘Narrow by Date’ query sting params to url : 

&tbs=qdr:y

with:

 6) Add narrow by date to default search engine:

{bing:baseURL}search?q=%s&tbs=qdr:y&{bing:cvid}{bing:msb}

Attempted Workarounds

Here are the options that I have currently tried , I am personally using option 1 with 6 but it works for only my general searches. When I need something narrower like “Last Month” I have to tweak the url again.

 

1) Add ‘Narrow by Date’ query sting params to url

                last day

                &tbs=qdr:d

                or year

                &tbs=qdr:y

                Only date param that seems to use DatePublished and mimics duckduckgo / google functionality

                

 

               

2 ) Add Freshness (not same as datePublished)

                freshness=week

                freshness=2021-08-23..2022-08-23

                This is useless because freshness as design "Freshness refers to the date that Bing originally discovered the webpage, not when the publisher published the webpage." per MS

               

3) Adding datePublished to search (not sure what this does, does not seem to work)

                eg: datePublished=YYYY-MM-DD

4) Adding date range to search value: (doesn’t work)

                eg  "test search" (Jan. 1 - Feb 18)

5) Some unrelated setting? (doesn’t work)

                On the Worldwide screen, select “United States English”. For their own reasons, Bing only supports search-by-date in the United States.

                https://www.oyetimes.com/lifestyle/technology/52485-how-to-enable-bing-search-by-date

 6) Add narrow by date to default search engine:

{bing:baseURL}search?q=%s&tbs=qdr:y&{bing:cvid}{bing:msb}

Using narrow by Date results

 Appendix: Compare results with and without &tbs=qdr:y

 

With Narrow by Date

 

Without narrow by date