Abstract
- Google Search has moved Advanced Search to the Tools tab for easier access, improving the search experience for frequent users.
- Advanced Search offers filters to refine search results, including words, numbers, languages, file types, and specific pages.
- The Advanced Search option appears under the Search Tools tab on some devices, suggesting a gradual rollout.
Google Search is one of the most used search engines in the world. The service has improved significantly over the past few years, and artificial intelligence is expected to be at the fore in the coming years. At the same time, the company continues to improve the usual Google search experience for frequent users. A tool known as Advanced search it has been available in mobile and desktop versions of Search for some time, but its visibility is somewhat limited. That’s now changing as Google announces the move of advanced search within Tools.
What is Google Search Labs?
Experiment with Google’s upcoming search features
Google’s search support team said in a post that the move is designed to make Advanced Search easily accessible. Prior to this update, Advanced Search was hidden inside the Search Settings menu, as Google notes, so the move makes sense.
The Tools the section mentioned here is visible within the horizontally scrollable list of options that appear when you search for something, such as all, News, Images, Videos, Purchaseetc. Advanced search will now be available in the same horizontal tab list, which will appear at the end of the list under Tools.
Advanced search option within the search tool
While Google says Advanced Search on mobile will be available via Toolsappears within Search tools on my Android device as you can see above. The same Search Tools tab appears on the results page when using Google Chrome (Android and iOS) or the Google mobile app. But web search results show the Advanced Search option within Tools, just as Google intended.
In my opinion, Advanced Search was barely known to most people due to limited visibility. But with Google now making it more readily available within the results page, usage of this feature should grow significantly. There are already some helpful tips and tricks to make your search more efficient, but this advanced search option is among the easiest. It offers filters that allow users to refine results based on factors such as words and numbers used in the search, as well as language, file types, or specific websites or domains.