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I don't have a pointer to published research - but in my experience US folk will always assume the US MM/DD/YYYY format unless they are knowingly using an non-US site, and are already aware of the potential differences.
If you have to use numbers only then the format that causes least confusion across cultures in my experience is YYYY-MM-DD since it ...
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You would have to test with your audience, but I would opt for symbols where they are clear to most people. For anything numerical, X > Y is clear. I can't speak for all cultures, but I covered this in grade 4 at school, so I would assume the majority of people have at least this level of mathematical understanding.
I would also opt to do the same for ...
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Maybe even less "boolean" kind of language than your suggestion. Instead of
URL contains google.com and Visits > 1000 and Date is before
30.12.2011
maybe a more language-ish approach might be better
The address contains google.com and has more visits than 1000 and it was created before 30.12.2011
If the string gets really long, mabye splitting it up ...
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Perhaps start with the year first? You'll initially throw someone off, but for a good reason. I have never seen a YYYY-DD-MM structure in the wild, only YYYY-MM-DD. It would seem to follow for users that this may not be how they are used to seeing the date, but it does make the expectations clear. You could also locate a key nearby for any date format (if ...
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