You may already know that filtering for a specific date range under Search Tools helps you find the most timely information. But have you ever considered that using this feature can help save you money? Say that you're running low on cereal and you search for [cereal coupons]. Filter your results by Past week to ensure that you see the most up-to-date coupons in your search results. If you prefer a certain brand, product or store, remember to include those as keywords so you see the most specific results, like [kashi cereal coupons].

What clever ways do you use the date range filter?  Share with us in the comments!

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Read Astro Teller's piece in +WIRED about moonshot ideas—ones that "live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction"—and about how it can be easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better, because the size of the challenge: "10x can light a fire in hearts, and it’s hard not to get excited and think that other, seemingly impossible things might also be possible."

See moonshot ideas on www.SolveforX.com, our forum to encourage moonshot thinking, and read the full op-ed from Astro: 

In Sweden today, our doodle marks the 139th birthday of children's author and illustrator Elsa Beskow, known for her delicate, fairy-tale-like forest scenes. 

Valentine's Day is one of the busiest dining nights of the year. And no one wants to spend their romantic evening waiting half an hour for the bread basket, sending back the wrong drink order or hunting down your missing server. With that in mind, +ZAGAT has put together a list of America’s "top service restaurants"—the restaurants that get service right. 

Find the full list of top service restaurants in 25 U.S. cities on our blog: http://goo.gl/d3SnG and don't forget to give your favorite restaurant a great rating on Google+ to help others find the best spots for top-notch service, on date night or beyond. 

Last week we hosted our 2013 +Solve for X event, where we gathered 50 experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world, who are taking on moonshots—proposals that address a huge problem, suggest a radical solution that could work, and use some form of breakthrough technology to make it happen.

We heard 18 technology moonshot proposals, which you can watch on SolveforX.com. There, you can also submit your own moonshot proposals, share and rate your favorites, join in by declaring your “X”—the thing you’re passionate about working on or solving—and see moonshot ideas from partners like X PRIZE, GE FOCUS FORWARD, TED, MIT Technology Review, Singularity University, and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. Find out more on our blog post: http://goo.gl/2EObe. 

Join our "Fireside Hangout" with President Obama this Thursday, February 14 at 4:50 p.m. ET at +The White House.

You can submit your questions for the President, or vote on your favorites, at http://goo.gl/piid9. The Google Politics team will ask a selection of the top-voted questions during the Hangout. Learn more on the blog: http://goo.gl/s4HsI

Oh, and don't forget—you can tune into the President's State of the Union address on youtube.com/whitehouse tomorrow night at 9 p.m. ET. 

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Happy New Year to everyone celebrating in Vietnam!

Happy New Year! This doodle is on homepages in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Today many Asian countries are celebrating the Lunar New Year and we're marking the occasion with a handful of doodles, starting with this one in Korea.

We're kicking off the 2013 Carnival celebrations with this doodle in Colombia for the Barranquilla Carnival.