Google Offers Search Within Search

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Google will now be offering search within a search. The idea sounds pretty cool but where would it stop? Imagine a search inside a search inside a search etc. etc. . Think about it.

If you type in "amazon," "wikipedia" or "new york times" on Google, it brings up the relevant result at the top and immediately underneath is a second search box. If you type a keyword in that secondary search box it will return results from within that site.
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Interesting Idea, now if they could get the exclude keywords to work correctly that would be very helpful.

Try searching for something to buy and exclude the eBay and other reseller search providers.
 
It's not really new since they have always allowed people to search within a site. They just made it look different.
 
Yeah, they made it easier for the non technical people who don't want to go into the advanced menu, or who don't want to remember the extra search commands. I really only want to see this for major sites, since it will make the search listings longer. Maybe they will allow people to turn it off in the preferences.
 
ive been using this method for years. Just type in the website name, a "," and what you are searching for. The best example is looking up movies in imdb. Mininova lists alot of movies I have never heard of and I can just type in "imdb, movie title" and the first or second listing is the direct imdb link. Works pretty well with other sites also.
 
I have Firefox's search set up so I type "google my search" and it will search Google.com for "my search," just by typing in the address bar.
 
haha it doesn't work for google. If you search for "google", you can't search within google...
 
google within google.com

search using this:
google site:google.com
 
Interesting how they would implement that feature in order to make it more "organized". I guess it'll just be flashier to have it that way ^^
 
I wonder if anyone will do a search within a search to see how far they dig until they come up with nothing left.
 
XamediX said:
ive been using this method for years. Just type in the website name, a "," and what you are searching for. The best example is looking up movies in imdb. Mininova lists alot of movies I have never heard of and I can just type in "imdb, movie title" and the first or second listing is the direct imdb link. Works pretty well with other sites also.
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you can also use the "site:" search rule (e.g. site:www.imdb.com <movie name>).

But I guess the purpose of this new feature is to narrow down your search more, which can probably be done simply by adding keywords to your search...
 
trust_no1 said:
But I guess the purpose of this new feature is to narrow down your search more, which can probably be done simply by adding keywords to your search...
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Probably, the purpose of this new feature, is that the more searches you actually use google for, the better chance google gets paid money when you buy something you searched for.
 
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