Google Removes Search Filters for Visited Pages
 

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: 9 search tools.


A screenshot from 2014: 4 search tools.


And here's the same menu today: only 2 search tools left, at least for **w.


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 to forums, reviews, blogs
* finding recipes (the feature is still available here)
* removing shopping sites from the list of search results
* blocking search results
* quick view for PDF files and ****** files
* timeline view for search results.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Googl...~4/8TijgtCIQf8