Meanwhile, Back at the Google Ranch (Advanced Search Interface)

Meanwhile, Google ( http://www.google.com ) refuses to stand still. Their home page is getting even more minimalist, with a logo in the center of the page and the "About Google" and "Jobs @ Google" graphic buttons disappearing.

Google's also offering an advanced search page at http://www.google.com/advanced_search.html . For those of you who prefer fill-in-the-blank search interfaces, Google's advanced search offers a set of pull-down menus that allow you to specify included and excluded keywords, which domains to include or exclude in the site, etc.

Bear in mind that using link: with anything else still doesn't work. For example, you can't use the advanced search to say "all .edu sites that link to http://www.cnn.com." Google will just give you the sites that link to CNN. You can, however, say "all sites that include the keyword CNN in the edu domain."

Couple of other Google notes: Korean is a beta option in their language search. And they've FINALLY, FINALLY FINALLY revised their help pages! THANK YOU GOOGLE! Get the help pages at http://www.google.com/help.html . Their advanced search info is at http://www.google.com/help/features.html , where they
finally cover getting maps from Google, caching (the cached pages don't seem to have the cache date any more? ??) However, they still don't talk about the site: special syntax or links to current news.

(I don't know if I missed this before, but Google also offers a meta-tag for users who don't want their materials cached. Info: http://www.google.com/faq.html#cached .)

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