Unofficial Google Advanced Search

[zeratul]

You can actually build pretty complicated queries using Google. I could never find documentation for queries like this:

"This-is-*-(dog|cat)"

... but they work. Occasionally you might be accused of being a robot, though.

[spatten]

Fun!

I immediately nerd-sniped myself and started playing with factorials.

Turns out it only goes up to 170!. 170! gives you a number (170 ! = 7.25741562 × 10306). 171! searches for 171 in documents.

Still fun, and pretty darn fast, too. I thought they were probably caching the results for 1 - 170, but they return just as fast for non-integer factorials as well (try 100.2!).

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial#Extension_of_factoria...)

Nice work on this, whoever did it :)

[colinwarren]

They still could be caching them. The first time they encounter a factorial, they calculate it, throw it in a DB, and it's a quick DB access from then on.

[pushingbits]

I'm using the date range search option a lot when I am getting outdated search results. Even constructed a quick search for it, so I can type something like: "gdr 30 things" which will then search for stuff from the past 30 days.

Blog post about it: http://www.pushingbits.net/posts/google-date-range-address-b...

[kevinpacheco]

Section 4.1 needs to be updated. When you try to use it, Google displays this message on the SERP: "The + operator has been replaced. To search for an exact word or phrase, use double quotation marks."

[spearo77]

http://cl.ly/1w2s1F023I1s0d0N0T28 (via @waxpancake)

[aquarin]

Another one www.google.com/ncr - sets default Google search domain from google.cc to google.com, where CC is country tld. Useful if you prefer to search in .com version and not the localized one.

[bauchidgw]

great ressource

  pws=0

(turn off personalization) is missing

[jessriedel]

To clarify, one can access this by adding

   &pws=0

to the search url?

[janesvilleseo]

You beat me to it. But this is and advanced search I do all the time.

[ch0wn]

There's also a nice list by Google itself that mentions some, but not all, of the features: http://www.google.com/help/features.html

[ashrust]

Any idea what the throttling rate is on this api?

[MikeGrace]

Nice! Co-workers will be happy to have this.

[NathanGNU]

obvious mac owner is obvious