You're actually able to limit your search results, instructing Google to only bring pages created within a specific number of years. Before you hit enter to start your search, suffix this string at the end of the search URL. The number at the end will be how many years back your Google SERP will go: &as_qdr=y3

In general, putting a year or date in your search term will help limit results to more recent entries. However, if you want to limit your results, Google lets you search by the past hour, past year or create a custom date range. You'll see this option when you click on Tools.

Use the Google Timeline option 1) Click on Show Options located at top blue bar after searching on results page. 2) There you will find options to search for yesterday, past week or past yea r. 3) Use the timeline option to search for results ranging for particular day, month or year.

Once you preform the Google search, you can click on More search tools and then Custom Range... This will use the publication date, which Google describes as: Limit results according to when they were published on the Web.

Click 'Search tools' then select any date filter other than 'Any time'. Then click in the default 'Sorted by relevance' option and select 'Sorted by date'