Google Books no longer sorting by "Custom range" of date?

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Joel, if you start your search at the following webpage you will be
able to specify a time range. Note that Google Books search engine
implementation has been defective for quite some time. So you will
experience false negative and false positive matches. But the GB
search engine is still enormously powerful and valuable.

http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: Google Books no longer sorting by "Custom range" of date?
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> I can get Sorted by date (as well as the choices for "Any books" and
> for "Any document").  But for "Any time" *I* can't get "Custom range".
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> Does anyone else have my problem, or can anyone suggest a cause or a solution?
>
> Joel
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> At 7/30/2014 05:20 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>>When I click on "search tools," there is an "any time" click-down
>>that allows custom ranges and a "sorted by relevance" click-down
>>that allows sorting by date (though it's not very good). HTH. BB
>>
>>On Jul 30, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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>> > In GB, selecting Search Tools / Any time allows me to choose any of
>> > the last three centuries, but not "Custom range".  Is that no longer
>> > provided?  Or some parochial problem?
>> >
>> > Joel
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