Is there a way to view questions according to when they were last updated?

I often see questions that interest me but have no answer yet. Every
time I come to Google Answers, I have to scroll and scroll to find the
interesting questions and see if anyone has posted a comment or
answer.

I would love to have all the questions listed in order of their last
update date and time.  Is this possible?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 06 Jan 2005 21:30 PST

The link below should show you questions in "update" order (in blocks
of 100). "Update" includes a Google Answers Researcher answering,
locking or unlocking the question, the posting of a request for
clarification by either the customer or a Google Answers Researcher,
the posting of a comment, or a deletion by the Google Answers Editors.

http://www.answers.google.com/answers/search?q=-&qtype=all&num=100

Same thing, but shows only the answered questions:

http://www.answers.google.com/answers/search?num=100&q=-&qtype=answered

Only the unanswered questions:

http://www.answers.google.com/answers/search?num=100&q=-&qtype=unanswered

Unfortunately, the links above will not take you all the way back into
the archives. I know of no way to do that. However, you can browse
through the 1000 most recently modified questions in this way.

If this is satisfactory as an answer, please let me know.

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Clarification of Question by rambler-ga on 07 Jan 2005 06:36 PST

Your description of the first link sounded promising. However, when I
clicked it, I was puzzled by what I saw...
(1) The heading said that results were sorted "by relevance". What
does that mean? (Relevant to what?)
(2) The values under the Date column were not in order. (What is this
column? Is it the Update date? Of the date the question was originally
added?)
(3) I searched the list for my name ("rambler"), but did not find it.
I expected to see my question listed because of your recent request
for clarification.

Like I said, your description of the first link sounded exactly what I
was looking for, but the actual functioning of that link was
disappointing and confusing. (I did not check the other two links
because they don't interest me.)

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 07 Jan 2005 10:47 PST

I have no idea why these links don't work for you. As an experiment, I
just locked this question, then used the first link above and
refreshed it a couple of times. After a few seconds' delay (presumably
as the site updates itself), this question appeared at the very top of
the list. It will sink again quite rapidly, of course, since GA is
rather busy at this time on a weekday.

I hope another Researcher will be able to help. I don't know of any
other way to do this.

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Clarification of Question by rambler-ga on 07 Jan 2005 12:51 PST

Ok, I'm satisfied. The link that you provided is exactly what I needed. Thank you!

Agreed.

Rambler --

The fastest way to track questions that interest you is simply to
write down the question number (453104 for this question).  From the
GA home page you can search by question number and quickly find the
ones that interest you.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Also, there's another little glitch I've noticed, that Pinkfreud
alluded to in her last clarification.  That is the need to refresh,
sometimes several times, to be sure you're seeing the "real" current
list.  For example, there've been times I've seen a question I might
have been interested in answering, and clicked on it only to be
greeted with the message that it was currently locked, despite my not
having seen any lock on the list. Then going back to the list, I've
had to refresh two or three times before the question popped to the
top of the list with the lock icon on it.

When I see a question I want to follow, I click "File-->Send
To-->Shortcut to Desktop"(in Internet Explorer) and then move all the
links to a "GoogleAnswers" folder on my desktop (ordered by date).  I
wait a week or two and then just go through and click on each link
(like this one).  If there isn't activity after a couple of weeks, I
assume there probably won't be and I just delete the link.  This works
well for me and is easier than writing down question numbers.  Hope
this helps...