You can order a snippets query by modication time then just return the top X number of results. That would give you items that have been modified recently.
You could from that though parse the published date and ignore certain results, not the most reliable option but if your only looking for the most recent posting (say the most recent 10) it could work. Tom Wilson Freelance Google Base Developer and Consultant www.tomthedeveloper.com Google Base Tools - http://dev.tomthedeveloper.com/googlebase Featured Project : http://google-code-featured.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-base-competitor-analysis.html On Jan 10, 1:37 am, Celebird <[email protected]> wrote: > first, you're welcome. > > i believe the confusion is between the two > attributes g:publish_date and atom:updated. > > google's own app doesn't use the g:publish_date attribute > as far as i can determine; assuming you mean what's tagged > as "posted on" for display and sort. > > posted-on is probably derived from the atom:updated attribute; > atom:updated can be used for display and possibly sorting but > isn't indexed for searching as far as i know. > > g:publish_date isn't required for the jobs item-type > and isn't used much at all within that item-type -- > as far as i can tell; whereas atom:updated is always > generated by google-base internally. > > modification_time may equate to atom:updated for ranking. > > http://code.google.com/apis/base/docs/2.0/reference.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Base-data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
