SerpApi publishes guide on parsing Google Search date and time formats

SerpApi released a blog post detailing how to parse the various absolute and relative date and time formats used in Google Search results.

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SerpApi: SerpApi released a blog post detailing how to parse the various absolute and relative date and time formats used in Google Search results.

Why it matters

Google Search uses a wide variety of date and time formats, making extraction and normalization challenging for scrapers. This guide provides a practical reference for developers building extraction pipelines that need to handle these formats consistently, reducing parsing errors and improving data quality.

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Primary source · SerpApi · 2026-10-08 — How to parse dates and times from Google Search results

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Topics: SerpApi, Google Search, date-parsing, google-search, serpapi, data-extraction, time-formats