Google Unveils Search Options and Google Squared 171
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."
Re:Blocking results from certain sites... (Score:5, Informative)
That's a current feature [google.com] 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.
Re:Regexp and exact word matching options (Score:3, Informative)
Full Regexp would be very hard but Google does have basic abilities to do exact matching and conditional matching. Just hit the "advanced [google.co.uk]" button.
Hardly something that is tough to find out.
Re:google squared (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Regexp and exact word matching options (Score:5, Informative)
Google Code search [google.com] supports regular expressions, so it's possible with a smaller index at least.
Re:Regexp and exact word matching options (Score:2, Informative)
Except quotation marks do not give you a literal search.
It ignores punctuation marks, and doesn't necessarily give you exact quotes early on.
Re:Too specific (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Regexp and exact word matching options (Score:4, Informative)
I suppose I really just ought to use another search engine for these; cuil [cuil.com], for one gives different results for Error #2005 [cuil.com] and Error 2005 [cuil.com]
Re:Regexp and exact word matching options (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Chicken or the egghead? (Score:3, Informative)
Google has presented limited context-aware results for years if you request them, e.g. search for "define: word" or "185 usd in euros".
Re:Regexp and exact word matching options (Score:4, Informative)
Google seems to strip out non-alphanumeric symbols.
This isn't entirely true. net 11 [google.com] and .net 1.1 [google.com] return different results.
Re:Too specific (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Blocking results from certain sites... (Score:3, Informative)
Have you tried "give me back my google".com?
http://gmbmg.com/about.php [gmbmg.com]
I think it might be what you are looking for.
Re:Regexp and exact word matching options (Score:3, Informative)
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 [google.com]
which returns slash as first hit.
and:
http://www.google.com/search?q=slash* [google.com]
this one returns slashdot.