Showing posts with label advanced search. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advanced search. Show all posts

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Google's Really Advanced Search

You've know doubt heard of Advanced Search. How about Really Advanced Search?

I spotted this at the bottom of a Google Search Results page today and had to take a look.

Among the search features, including the usual ones, are:
  • words almost, but not quite entirely unlike:
  • rhyming slang for:
  • this exact word or phrase, whose sum of unicode code points is a mersenne prime:
  • subtext or innuendo for:
and this:
  • the words , but not , unless they contain either the intersection of phrases , , and or a gerund in which case the disjunction of and will also be taken into account (on Tuesdays). 
At the bottom of the page are also several links:

You can also...
 
Some of the features of really advanced search might make a good coding project. They might also be a challenge to explain. But they really make a better April Fools Joke.