Rather than returning a page of specific flights, the site displayed the best possible fares for that date range, starting with the $150 round-trip option.
In addition to preset date selections, if you do a custom date search by selecting it in the drop down box, you'll get results just for that date range and you'll also see a day by day breakdown showing results per day with the included term.
The new options include the ability to see results from only the past hour (that's so near-realtime) or for a specific date range.
The wider issue, to my eye, is that the current filter options are too limited — with, for example, a date range option that's way too near-term focused, only going back as far as "last year".
Perpetual calendar, type of dating system that makes it possible to find the correct day of the week for any date over a wide range of years.
I showed them how to use The New York Times Web site to conduct searches and specifically filter their research hits for approximate date ranges and articles, not blog posts.
It also allows developers to quickly see these figures for various date ranges, including "all time," "last 24 hours," and 1, 3, 6, 9 or 12 months.
Naturally, the graph showing numbers of mentions for particular date ranges isn't particularly useful (of course there will always be more mentions in recent history: the rise of literacy and the printing press dictate this), it is still an interesting tool for mapping the past in specific niches.
With this update, YouTube is also introducing a few small design changes to Analytics, including an easier to use data slider for selecting date ranges, as well as video hovercards that allow you to see a thumbnail of your video and some basic information about it when you hover over a link.
Figure 1 illustrates our rationale for choosing date ranges.
