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Google's Search Options Panel Just Got Smarter & Makes Product Research Easier

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Oct 01, 2009

Summary

Google just announced some interesting enhancements to the Search Options side panel it introduced earlier this year. In total, Google is adding nine tools to the sidebar: past hour, specific date range, more shopping sites, fewer shopping sites, visited pages, not yet visited, books, blogs and news. Thanks to this, you can now, for example, restrict search results to sites that were updated within the last hour, or you can tell Google to tweak the number of shopping sites that appear in on a search results page.

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Google will roll these changes out gradually over the course of the day and expects them to be available globally in English by the end of the day.

Fresher Search Results

Until now, if you wanted to see the freshest search results, you had to apply a little URL-hack, but now, this feature has become default in the Search Options panel.

Another interesting new feature is the ability to filter by sites you have already visited or by sites you actually haven't visited yet. This feature only works when you have signed in to your Google account and h

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