Search Options helps the user filter search results by different criteria without opening a new page. Generally, Google gives what it considers the most relevant results first, but Search Options allows you to change the filter to meet your own needs. Previously using Search Options, you could search withing a date range, get related search results, and get a Google translation.
You now have the following additional choices to further filter your Google search results:
- Visited pages or Not yet visited lets you search specifically for webpages you already viewed or not viewed. You can imagine how helpful it will be to select sites that you have Not yet visited when searching for genealogy websites so that you don't keep checking out the same sites over and over. This feature relies on your Google Web History so make sure you are logged into your Google account when surfing genealogy sites.
- Fewer shopping sites or More shopping sites could be useful when genealogy surfing if your search results keep giving book results at Amazon or memorabilia at eBay. Don't want those results? Now you can choose Fewer shopping sites.
- Blogs This option will restrict results to just blogs. Blogs have been added as a search filter in addition to the filters for Images, Videos, News, Updates. Books, and Forums.
If you haven't tried doing your Google searches using Show Options located on the upper blue bar on your Google search results page, try it the next time you do a genealogy search. I found these filters to really help filter and narrow down my search results.
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