Google Really Advanced Search

http://www.google.com/js/reallyadvanced.html

by tambourine_man • 14 years ago

133 33 14 years ago

Together with the 8 bit maps, I had quite a chuckle. I really love this page, and I'm a little sad it doesn't function; I guess I won't be seeing any websites with Polka midis.

Great April Fools, Google!

spicyj• 14 years ago

I wish this was real.

drivebyacct2• 14 years ago

How much would you pay to run a custom query against all of Google's index? Sounds interesting. Also, funny, Google spends a bit on creativity and get a large return with publicity every April 1st.

zackattack• 14 years ago

I would love to see them compete with Amazon.

anonymoushn2• 14 years ago

Sadly it's not real and you still can't get google to search for the query you enter.

sigmaxipi• 14 years ago

All you need to do is put quotes around the phrase. Or if you want pages that must contain all the words in any order, place quotes around each word. Or just use Verbatim Search: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

anonymoushn2• 14 years ago

I was pleased to learn Verbatim Search no longer requires you to spend several clicks per query to use it, but sad that you cannot set it as a permanent preference.

shasta• 14 years ago

Why don't they start by allowing you to search for substrings in email?

luxpsycho• 14 years ago

What do you mean, send your query off by email? Or search actual mails? How would they get them? Do you mean google mail?

Devilboy2• 14 years ago

In Gmail you can search your own mail but whole words only. Searching for PROPEL will not bring up an email containing the word PROPELLER for example.

iamgopal2• 14 years ago

true in subjective sense.

trentfowler2• 14 years ago

Imagine the sensational headline potential for content that is true in the tautological sense, e.g.

"BREAKING NEWS: SCIENTISTS EITHER DID OR DID NOT CONFIRM TODAY THAT PLUTO HAS REGAINED PLANETARY STATUS!"

iamgopal2• 14 years ago

down voted on a april fool post comment ? kids these days...

petercooper2• 14 years ago

As funny as this is, it's sad that Google doesn't offer something that actually searches for the stuff you enter and doesn't try to guess your intentions or randomly jump to "Did you really mean [...], dumbass?". Kinda like it did several years ago. Heavy use of + used to do that but the new "" replacement is more of a crapshoot.

yaix• 14 years ago

For most people, that is exactly what they need. And /that/ is the sad part.

sp332• 14 years ago

There is a "verbatim" option, under the "more search tools" menu on the bottom left of the search results.

petercooper2• 14 years ago

Thanks. Right you are!

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Seems to be a few months old.

JoshTriplett• 14 years ago

Unfortunately, no option exists to turn it on by default for all searches.

joe_the_user• 14 years ago

I don't actually think it's funny that Google searches keep getting more crude and simplistic.

Geee• 14 years ago

There's one april fools trick on Google Analytics too; you'll find a small note icon which will play your analytics graph as notes for piano or sitar.

jonah• 14 years ago

I love the recursive "Linked [from|to] pages that..." option.

dlss• 14 years ago

This page had me really excited up until the "only show pages that will be updated in the [next 24 hours, next week, next month]" option :(

AznHisoka• 14 years ago

They wouldn't allow search this advanced because they fear SEO's would come up with technique to abuse it to their advantage. Otherwise it'd probably been out already.

brudgers• 14 years ago

April fools day aside, this may show why Y-combinator is interested in finding teams working on search startups. The joke is funny because this is what people often want.

trentfowler2• 14 years ago

If this is true I will be taking my news in tautology form from now on. THIS JUST IN--SCIENTISTS EITHER DID OR DID NOT CONFIRM TODAY THAT PLUTO HAS REGAINED PLANETARY STATUS! WE GO LIVE NOW TO THE MOON WITH MICHAEL JORDAN FOR MORE ON THIS--WAIT--I'M GETTING UNCONFIRMED REPORTS THAT WE MAY ACTUALLY BE TAKING YOU SOMEWHERE ELSE AT DIFFERENT TIME WITH ANOTHER HOST ABOUT AN UNRELATED TOPIC--WAIT--WAIT--I CAN NOW CONFIRM THAT IT MIGHT ALSO BE ONE OF LITERALLY INFINITE POSSIBILITIES, SO STAY TUNED!

kc0bfv• 14 years ago

Did anyone catch the, "download our rank code so you can run Google at home", link? I didn't realize this April Fools day until I saw that...

hobbyist• 14 years ago

Is it really advanced or really primitive?

zyb09• 14 years ago

Looks like every little 4 man team of engineers at Google is making their own April Fools joke. I like it :)

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