Google Really Advanced Search

[petercooper]

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.

[sp332]

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

[joe_the_user]

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

[yaix]

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

[anonymoushn]

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

[sigmaxipi]

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&...

[shasta]

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

[luxpsycho]

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

[dlss]

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 :(

[spicyj]

I wish this was real.

[drivebyacct2]

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.

[possibilistic]

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!

[kc0bfv]

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...

[brudgers]

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.

[AznHisoka]

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.

[jonah]

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

[Geee]

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.

[trentfowler]

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!

[zyb09]

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

[hobbyist]

Is it really advanced or really primitive?

[iamgopal]

true in subjective sense.

[trentfowler]

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!"

[iamgopal]

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