Searching for latest updates?

[Darrell Urbien]

Hi, this is a longshot, but I'll throw this out there..

Is there any way to search a website to show the pages that were most recently updated? I frequent a site that has many, many, many different pages. But the site owner does not maintain a current "What's New" page. He also likes to update previously loaded pages with new information, but he only tells people he's done this sporadically.

I've tried Google Advanced Search to search for pages uploaded within a certain date range, and that will give me pages that are completely new. But is there any way to show pages that may have been updated since they were first uploaded?

Any help would be appreciated.

[John Cipriano]

A google search for "check updated web page" turned up quite a few things. Do you want the actual pages or is it enough to just know the date of the last update?

If you just need the date then create a new bookmark in your favorites/bookmarks toolbar and then change the URL to

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javascript:alert(document.lastModified)

I tried to make a link you could bookmark but the forum software doesn't like it.

As for getting the page rather than the date...there is some software specifically for doing this but I think the easiest thing is to use something like this:
http://page2rss.com/ and then subscribe to the RSS feed. The process of subscribing is different for IE and Firefox but easy enough in both. If you're using Firefox then it will ask you how to subscribe and you can pick "Subscribe to this feed using Live Bookmarks."

If the site has an RSS feed then you can skip the first step of making a feed and just subscribe to the one they provide.

This scenario is basically exactly what RSS excels at. I get a lot of my favorite sites that way. If you're familiar with Google Reader, it is an RSS reader. http://www.whatisrss.com/

[Wiz Feinberg]

Use ChangeDetection.com to monitor pages for changes. They will email you when updates occur and give a link to a page that highlights the changes in yellow.

[Darrell Urbien]

Hi, thanks for all the answers guys.

Just so you understand where I'm coming from, here's the website:

Harpguitars.net

See how there's a box with a date for when there was an update - even a "major" update? Well, if you follow the link to the "What's New" page (which actually takes you to the forum), there's a link to the new content only about 10% of the time. Can anyone, for example, tell me what was added on 11/11? The latest entry in the forum under updates is dated May! Unfortunately I probably won't find out what was added until I stumble upon it surfing the many pages. Am I missing something obvious??

Anyway, I setup an account at the ChangeDetection site; now I just have to wait for something new to appear.. Do I need to do this for all the major pages on that site, or is the Homepage enough?

[Wiz Feinberg]

All pages must be monitored separately via ChangeDetection.