Google Raises Word Limit

Philipp Lenssen writes "Google quietly raised their web search limit to 32 words. Previously, only up to 10 words were allowed per query, with succeeding words being ignored. This is not only important to specific approaches of advanced searching (for example, when you need to exclude many different keywords using the minus operator), but it's also of great help to certain tools using the Google API. While there doesn't seem to be any official statement from Google yet, some more details can be found at my Google blog."

Comments

Finnally.

[Phantombantam]

About time. I always thought of the 10 word limit as gogle's biggest setback.

Re:very complex

[damiangerous]

How are you finding 3.2x as many documents? You should be finding fewer documents, not more.

searching for non a-z characters

[fluor2]

characters like !,.'$ is pretty much not supported by google. i would like those to be included in the future.

Regexp

[John Hasler]

Now, if they will just accept regular expressions.

Re:Good for searching multiple sites

[gl4ss]

though.. it's still not good enough.

what I would hope for them to introduce would be a word blacklist that would be personal, and that you could include at least a thousand terms in it.

why? TO AVOID THOSE FUCKING LINKFARMS, they usually have the same advert links in them so just adding the referral id of the owner of a certain farm will get a lot of meaningless sites out of the search. it's doable now if you make your own program that does the filtering(using googleapi. there's two ways, either go to the sites yourself or request the cache from google.. massive traffic in any case for you and the search will take ages to complete).