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Google Unveils Search Options and Google Squared
CWmike writes "Saying that its users are becoming increasingly sophisticated, Google has unveiled a list of new search technologies geared to help users 'slice and dice' their Google search results, along with a new tool to help them cull information instead of Web pages. Marissa Mayer, vice president of Google's Search Products, said of Search Options in a blog post, 'We have spent a lot of time looking at how we can better understand the wide range of information that's on the Web and quickly connect people to just the nuggets they need at that moment.' Google Squared, set to be released to users as part of its Google Labs program later this month, pulls up information from different sites and presents it in an organized manner."
That's a current feature of Google search. Don't want results from slashdot.org or any subdomains in your results? include -site:slashdot.org in your query string.
It would be nice if, e.g., Wonder Wheel kept site restrictions (positive or negative) when you used it to pull up a related search.
Full Regexp would be very hard but Google does have basic abilities to do exact matching and conditional matching. Just hit the "advanced" button.
Hardly something that is tough to find out.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
If you're considering a google plex to be analogous to a googolplex, then your post is wrong. A googolplex is 10^googol, not googol^googol.
Google Code search supports regular expressions, so it's possible with a smaller index at least.
main(c,r){for(r=32;r;) printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}
Except quotation marks do not give you a literal search.
It ignores punctuation marks, and doesn't necessarily give you exact quotes early on.
Good news! You can easily switch this feature off: In Firefox press Ctrl+Shift+Del, select "Cookies" and click "Clear Private Data Now"
It's a pity that google considers it so - I come across a query every few days that fits along these lines.
I suppose I really just ought to use another search engine for these; cuil, for one gives different results for Error #2005 and Error 2005
Those options are not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for exact symbol search in strings like "C#" or "x = y * 2", and also, case sensitive search. Sometimes one needs to find identifiers on the internet (and not just in google code search).
Google has presented limited context-aware results for years if you request them, e.g. search for "define: word" or "185 usd in euros".
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Google seems to strip out non-alphanumeric symbols.
This isn't entirely true. net 11 and .net 1.1 return different results.
There aint no pancake so thin it doesn't have two sides.
I know this one, try www.google.com/ncr
Have you tried "give me back my google".com?
http://gmbmg.com/about.php
I think it might be what you are looking for.
Computers don't make mistakes. What they do, they do on purpose.
Huh ? Google Search supports * since a few months.
Try a search without * and with, and you'll get different results.
For example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=slash
which returns slash as first hit.
and:
http://www.google.com/search?q=slash*
this one returns slashdot.