Example of searching in google:
professors "private sector" -oxford filetype:pdf site:bbc.co.uk daterange:2455774-2455896
- “private sector” : include the whole expression
- -oxford : results without “oxford”
- filetype:pdf : to be a .pdf document
- site:bbc.co.uk : results only from bbc.co.uk
- daterange:2455774-2455896 : between 31-July-2011 and 30-November-2011 in Julian Date format
Unfortunately Google uses only Julian Dates in daterange function for the moment.
Use this tool to convert dates to Julian format: Julian Dates Calculation
Example of searching in gmail:
"visual basic" from:<email> has:attachment after:2011/11/29 before:2011/12/14