Saturday, January 22, 2005
Google search limit raised to 32 words
Google appears to have silently raised the number of words it permits in its search query from 10 to 32 words.
This is great news - whilst the casual user wont notice the difference, the power searcher was often hitting this limit. Now it's possible to do much more targeted searches, using the - operator much more to exclude words you know are of no interest. There's a whole bunch of other applications that benefit from raising the limit, and plenty of partial workarounds that are now redundant - a Google search shows many of them.
The support for the new limit is somewhat patchy :-
This is great news - whilst the casual user wont notice the difference, the power searcher was often hitting this limit. Now it's possible to do much more targeted searches, using the - operator much more to exclude words you know are of no interest. There's a whole bunch of other applications that benefit from raising the limit, and plenty of partial workarounds that are now redundant - a Google search shows many of them.
The support for the new limit is somewhat patchy :-
- the 32 word limit is used on the main search engine, image search, Froogle, and via the Google search API
- the 10 word limit is still in force for Google groups, news
# posted by zmarties @ 1/22/2005 04:05:00 pm 
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