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04-17-2015, 03:45 AM
Google Removes Search Filters for Visited Pages
One by one, Google's advanced search features disappear. Google's search tools menu used to include a lot of filters and **w there are only 2 filters.
Google has quietly ******* the features that allowed you to restrict results to visited pages and pages you haven't visited yet. "Visited pages" and "**t yet visited" are ** longer included in the search tools menu.
Here's a screenshot from 2013 (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/09/google-removes-private-search-option.html): 9 search tools.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EBz4k7Mb_Y8/VAnh4GAKpeI/AAAAAAAB-9g/OB3W1YdlRXs/s1600/google-search-tools-apr-2013.png
A screenshot from 2014 (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/09/google-removes-private-search-option.html): 4 search tools.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PKAP17a7nJU/VAnjjkI3UPI/AAAAAAAB-9s/teilBA7llc8/s1600/google-filters.png
And here's the same menu today: only 2 search tools left, at least for **w.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-53g9I-DxNa4/VTApnd-liYI/AAAAAAACCPw/fQDy990Geik/s1600/search-tools-missing-features.png
I'm sure that Google will soon remove "reading level" and "verbatim", since they're probably used by a small percentage of Google users, just like all the other advanced search features. Google **w focuses on answering questions and natural language understanding, so these features for power users are ** longer important.
Here's a list of cool features ******* by Google in the past 5 years:
* finding sites with images
* finding search results in foreign languages ("translated foreign pages")
* restricting results (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/07/google-forum-search-**-longer-available.html) to forums, reviews, blogs
* finding recipes (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-recipe-search.html) (the feature is still available here (https://www.google.com/?tbm=rcp))
* removing shopping sites from the list of search results
* blocking search results (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-discontinues-blocked-sites.html)
* quick view (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/04/**-more-quick-view-in-google-search.html) for PDF files and ****** files
* timeline view for search results.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleOperatingSystem/~4/8TijgtCIQf8
One by one, Google's advanced search features disappear. Google's search tools menu used to include a lot of filters and **w there are only 2 filters.
Google has quietly ******* the features that allowed you to restrict results to visited pages and pages you haven't visited yet. "Visited pages" and "**t yet visited" are ** longer included in the search tools menu.
Here's a screenshot from 2013 (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/09/google-removes-private-search-option.html): 9 search tools.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EBz4k7Mb_Y8/VAnh4GAKpeI/AAAAAAAB-9g/OB3W1YdlRXs/s1600/google-search-tools-apr-2013.png
A screenshot from 2014 (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/09/google-removes-private-search-option.html): 4 search tools.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PKAP17a7nJU/VAnjjkI3UPI/AAAAAAAB-9s/teilBA7llc8/s1600/google-filters.png
And here's the same menu today: only 2 search tools left, at least for **w.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-53g9I-DxNa4/VTApnd-liYI/AAAAAAACCPw/fQDy990Geik/s1600/search-tools-missing-features.png
I'm sure that Google will soon remove "reading level" and "verbatim", since they're probably used by a small percentage of Google users, just like all the other advanced search features. Google **w focuses on answering questions and natural language understanding, so these features for power users are ** longer important.
Here's a list of cool features ******* by Google in the past 5 years:
* finding sites with images
* finding search results in foreign languages ("translated foreign pages")
* restricting results (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/07/google-forum-search-**-longer-available.html) to forums, reviews, blogs
* finding recipes (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-recipe-search.html) (the feature is still available here (https://www.google.com/?tbm=rcp))
* removing shopping sites from the list of search results
* blocking search results (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-discontinues-blocked-sites.html)
* quick view (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/04/**-more-quick-view-in-google-search.html) for PDF files and ****** files
* timeline view for search results.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleOperatingSystem/~4/8TijgtCIQf8