Google’s “Search Options” was launched last May and it provides several filters to narrow down your search results. On the results page the “Show Options” link appears at the top of the search results. Click on that and you get a sidebar that looks like the one on Google News search.
The best option in all this is that you can now SORT RESULTS BY DATE instead of relevance. Other options that offer interesting results are the filters for formats such as video, forums, Blogs, and reviews. The reviews filter is quite strange — but I have found the best way to make it useful — use it when you are searching a person’s name and it will turn-up results from a wide variety of publications and blogs. Searching for reviews about things seems quite useless, but using this when searching names, then sorting by date, makes this very useful.
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