Google's Advanced Search Page Updated

Google's cash cow is its advertising program, as everybody knows, but the search engine is the core of what the Mountain View-based company stands for. It's only natural to want to improve it, but at this point, there's no point in doing that, at least not in the traditional companies fighting over who rolls out the best changes that would impact the market kind of way.

Although there has been no official notice yet on any of the Google Official Blogs, users have started to see that their Advanced Search page has been revamped and made a whole lot better functions-wise. Unfortunately, it's not available everywhere, so I wasn't able to see and test it for myself, but SERoundtable's Barry Schwartz (or rustybrick) has posted some screenshots that present the newly-added features.

As you can see in the pictures on the left, there's been a complete overhaul of the design of the page, starting with the color scheme and ending with the number of functions that are presented. The overall impression is that the new interface is a lot more useful, providing a better experience of searching in an advanced method.

The options added are very interesting, especially the usage rights of the content provided in search, that can be set to "not filtered by license," "free to use or share," "free to use or share, even commercially," free to use share or modify ," and "free to use, share or modify, even commercially." Other welcomed additions, although not unexpected, are the ability to search by region, and by numeric ranges. Completely new is the option to set how many results you want the search engine to present on a page.

More information will come once the update will be announced for everybody, but I just thought I'd give you a heads-up and something to dream about, in case you aren't able to see it for yourselves.