26 March 2014

Bring Back Forum Search, Recipe Search and More



Google Search used to have an option that allowed you to restrict results to forum pages. You'll often find helpful discussions and it's nice to be able to exclude blogs, news sites, videos, shopping sites when searching for a software bug or other tech-related issues.



Fortunately, you can still restrict results to discussions: just add &tbm=dsc to a Google Search URL.






This also works for:



- blog search: add &tbm=blg

- recipe search: add &tbm=rcp

- patent search: add &tbm=pts

- local search: add &tbm=plcs



Here's a screenshot for recipe search:






Blog Search and Patent Search also have standalone sites, while Google Maps is a good place for local search.

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