Google today announced the launch of Google Search options, a tool that will allow users to dig deeper into their search results for a more customizable search experience. The search options, available right on the results page, lets users sort and reshape results and explore their queries to quickly and more easily find what they need.
Search options will allow users to break out their results in several ways, including:
- Show only pages with a certain type of content. Limit search results to see only videos, forums or reviews for a given search. For searches about films or novels, you’ll now be able easily to search for reviews; or you can view only pages that contain videos in them.
- View related searches. With this tool you can view a list of related searches or have them graphically represented using the Wonder Wheel feature.
- Organize by date. Find the most recent results, by limiting your results to pages from the past 24 hours, past week or past year.
Search options might be particularly helpful for searches that are hard to express with keywords (such as “Show me discussions about ‘the Oscars’ in forums”) or when you want to explore topics more broadly or refine them (for example, “Show me queries that typically branch out from ‘Renewable Energy’”).
Be sure to try out the Wonder Wheel great for finding related keywords!
Search options is a further way to give users the power to customize the way the use Google,” said Juergen Galler, Director of Product Management at Google. “We’re always thinking about what we can do to improve the search experience, and we think this launch is a good step to help users get quickly and easily to precisely the kind of information they seek.”
