Great Day for Power Searchers: Google Adds New Search Options
If you're a Google power searcher today's a great day!
Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land has the latest on some new search options from Google in this article. Like all of Danny's articles, the new features are well illustrated with plenty of screenshots.
You can access these options/refinements (some of which went live in May, 2009) by clicking on the "Show Options" Plus Sign (+) at the top of a web search results list.* Once you click on the + link, you'll see the options in the left margin. Note: If you're not seeing any of these new options at the moment, relax, it's because Google is rolling them out throughout the day. Remain calm. All is well.
* News and blog search do note have a "Show Options" link but do offer refinements in the left margin.
So, what's new from Google today?
Nine new search options/refinements:
Refining Your Search Results
1) Visited Pages (Refine your search results to show only pages in your Web History that you've visited before during past search sessions)
2) Not Yet Visited (Refine your search results list to remove from the results list any pages you've already looked in your Web History)
Note: #1 and #2 only work if you're logged-in to your Google account and make use of the Web History feature.
3) Refine Results by Allowing More or Showing Fewer Shopping Results
Depending on your search query and the results you receive you can see more shopping sites or limit the amount number seen in a results list.
4) Time: You Can Now Limit Your Search Results To Added to the Google index in the Past Hour
This is in addition to several options to limit your search results to pages indexed in the past 24 hours, past week, past year, or a specific date range.
Note: If you want to limit your searches down even more to the last few minutes or even seconds, Barry Schwartz explains the correct syntax in this post.
5) Books, News & Blogs
Click to refine your results to any one of these content sources. They are in addition to reviews, forums, and videos.
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