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  • December 15th, 2005
  • 1:37 am

Earlier today I was searching on google and something new popped up. It seems Google was experimenting with some interesting search refinement.

I wasn’t aware enough to take a screenshot but have been able to replicate the results.

Got a screenshot today!

Screenshot

On a search for Apple, it offered a few refinements (as I recall more news, more blogs)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=apple+more%3Ablogs&btnG=Search&meta=

It appended a more:blogs to the search and low and behold the search results had more blogs in them. Of course minutes later the inserted links all disappeared but manually inserting the more:blogs reference into the search bar still seems to work.

Very cool and potentially useful depending on how the variety of ‘mores’ available.

The following work:

  • more:shopping_comparisons
  • more:stores
  • more:troubleshooting
  • more:hotels
  • more:reviews
  • more:blogs
  • more:news
  • more:troubleshooting
  • more:documentation
  • more:travelogs
  • more:scientific_literature
  • more:forums
  • more:manufacturers
  • more:home_improvement
Find any others that work?


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Ah, nice find. Very helpful! I’ll have to test around with it.

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Brian, yes it seems to work surprisingly well for such a simple refinement.

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How interesting. I’ve been playing around a bit with it, and it’s definately helped in finding more relevant information. Hope it lasts.

(Incidentally, auto-discovery of trackback URI on your posts is not working, and I couldn’t find a trackback URI within the page. Disabled?)

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Thanks for the link Eric.

Trackback has always been a bit of a mystery to me. I use etco as my blogging client and have allowed trackbacks there…. others have ‘trackbacked’ successfully in the past.

Hmmm… suggestions are welcome.

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