Google Advanced Search Options
I hesitate throwing the title “Google Advanced Search Options” in simply because the additional features I’m about to tell you about aren’t “technically” advanced search options but are simply options.
Before I confuse you too much let me show you the difference and then lay out what I’m going to talk about first.
The only reason I coupled them together was because sometimes people refer to these kinds of searches in the same way…although they are quite different.
The new Google search options I’m referring to in this post reside underneath the “Show Options” section of a Google search results page.
When you use the “Show Options” link you’ll see that whatever you searched on in within Google can be narrowed down by specific areas. So if you searched on “SEO” for example, you can click the show options link and narrow down that search to show:
- Only videos about SEO.
- Only news about SEO.
- Only blogs about SEO.
- Only forums about SEO.
(I made a video a while back about the Google Wonder Wheel underneath the search options that you might find useful).
Google has continued to update the options in this section and have now added:
- “Past Hour” so that you can see the newest results for the term you searched.
- “Specific Date Range” so that you can search for your topic within a certain time span.
- “More shopping sites & fewer shopping sites” – allowing you to first research a product and then make a purchase when you’re ready to see all of the stores that sell that product.
- “Books, Blogs & News” – you can now click on this link and only see the books related to your search term, the blogs, and the news.
- “Visited pages & Not Yet Visited” – This can be particularly helpful if you don’t want to see the same website over and over again and instead are trying to find fresh information.
These search options will definitely help you narrow down your search results. If you’re interested in the full Google post about it, visit http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/refine-your-search-results-with-new.html