what the - happened to google search options??

[bigred]

Bought new laptop, brought up google, logged in and all but the search options that used to be in the upper right are gone. ? Ironically, google turned up nada that I saw.

 

[Ketyk]

I don't understand your question. Do you mean the search options that are currently at the top?:

 

[rjh01]

No, what bigred is talking about is advanced search which is here. http://www.google.com.au/advanced_search?hl=en

 

[rjh01]

But if you are looking for how many results on a page and stuff like that, then those are missing for me too.

Edit. Found it https://www.google.com.au/preferences?hl=en Do a search and you will see a wheel under your name. Click on that and then search settings.

Edit2. Also see Google Settings

 

[bigred]

Found it but thx for replies. I think my problem was it used to be in upper left right out of the gate ie if you just go to google.com, but now they only show after you try to search on something. Weird.

 

[arthwollipot]

Who still uses the Google home page? You can search from the address bar in almost all proper browsers.

 

[Oliver]

Who still uses the Google home page? You can search from the address bar in almost all proper browsers.

Not if you really care about all search-syntaxes and -options.

 

[Cl1mh4224rd]

Not if you really care about all search-syntaxes and -options.

What makes you think those don't work with the built-in search fields?

 

[bigred]

It may be moot as I'm about to quit using the #@$ thing - I am sick to death of having to keep re-saving my search options and they won't take. Yeah I tried clearing cache etc etc. I may go back to yahoo or some such.

 

[arthwollipot]

I recommend DuckDuckGo. I switched over to using it as my default search engine some months ago, and it works really well. It doesn't track or bubble. It's simple and straightforward, and what Google was always supposed to be.

http://duckduckgo.com

 

[Fishstick]

I recommend DuckDuckGo. I switched over to using it as my default search engine some months ago, and it works really well. It doesn't track or bubble. It's simple and straightforward, and what Google was always supposed to be.

http://duckduckgo.com

On the other hand, google "that movie with the guy with the wierd hand" and you get an imdb link for Scary Movie 2. It's for idiomatic searches like that that Google really stands out imo.

 

[rjh01]

On the other hand, google "that movie with the guy with the wierd hand" and you get an imdb link for Scary Movie 2. It's for idiomatic searches like that that Google really stands out imo.

duck and go http://duckduckgo.com/?q=that movie with the guy with the wierd hand

 

[Fishstick]

duck and go http://duckduckgo.com/?q=that movie with the guy with the wierd hand

Thanks for proving my point:
DuckduckGo:

Google:

Edited by jhunter1163: 

Edited for Rule 10 in image.

 

[RoseMontague]

Google used to give you the option of returning only results from a specific time frame (for example news results from November 2007). Now it is last day, week, month, and year and I am not certain it is pulling much at all from the older articles. Are there any search engines that still give you an option for a specific time period?

 

[Fishstick]

It's still possible, but you have to use julian calendar, which is kind of dumb. eg "Movies" daterange:2453021-456016

Alternatively, there's Google timeline

 

[RoseMontague]

It's still possible, but you have to use julian calendar, which is kind of dumb. eg "Movies" daterange:2453021-456016

Alternatively, there's Google timeline

The Julian calendar date range works really well. Thank you so much.

 

[Rat]

Thanks for proving my point:
DuckduckGo:
http://i.imgur.com/jhP4a.png

Google:
http://i.imgur.com/Do42f.png

Do you think you could do it while spelling "weird" properly? I note that both ask you if that's what you meant, but it could change the result.

 

[Oliver]

What makes you think those don't work with the built-in search fields?

I know that you can use a lot of those syntaxes within the built-in search bar. But it's just not handy and often just too cumbersome.

 

[bigred]

I recommend DuckDuckGo. I switched over to using it as my default search engine some months ago, and it works really well. It doesn't track or bubble. It's simple and straightforward, and what Google was always supposed to be.

http://duckduckgo.com

I like. Thx.

And I also like that they don't have some goofy logo change celebrating Joe Artist Schmuckatelli's 293d birthday.

 

[ThatSoundAgain]

I recommend DuckDuckGo. I switched over to using it as my default search engine some months ago, and it works really well. It doesn't track or bubble. It's simple and straightforward, and what Google was always supposed to be.

http://duckduckgo.com

Hey, I cannot thank you enough for that tip. Non-evil Google is back, yay!