GooLevel: Specifying the Depth of Google Results

Specify what level of site you want returned to you (One level down? Two levels? Three? Whatever!). AlltheWeb now offers this in its advanced search options so I thought it would be cool to get the same thing for Google. Not perfect.

Google Top Level Search

Query:

Please use your Google API key here if you have one!

Depth Modifier
Deeper Than (>)
Not As Deep As(<)
Equals (=)

Number of Levels:
Top Level ( ex. www.example.com)
One Subdirectory
Two Subdirectories
Three Subdirectories
Four Subdirectories
Five Subdirectories

Note: If you get a "no search results" message for a search that you'd expect results, this may be because the key has been used up for the day. Sigh. 1000 queries at ten results each isn't a whole lot, is it? Please use your own Google API key if you have one.

This search allows you to specify how deep you want your search results to be. Want to get search results only from the top level of a domain? Choose Equals Top Level. Want to get results from way down deep in subdirectory land? Choose Deeper Than Four Subdirectories. (Though you probably won't get any results unless you use a very common search word.)

The level specifications look like this:

Top Level -- www.example.com

One Subdirectory -- www.example.com/one/

Two Subdirectories -- www.example.com/one/two/

Three Subdirectories -- www.example.com/one/two/three/

.. and so on. The results returned aren't always exact; sometimes in addition to a result that's the number of levels specified you'll also get a result in one higher directory with a nondefault filename. For example, if you searched for two subdirectories you might get the result of www.example.com/one/two/ and www.example.com/one/foo.html .

The top level result option, however, gives you nothing but search results on the top level.

GooLevel searches the first hundred Google results, so each use of this form burns ten API keys, and I only get a thousand a day.

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