Google Moves Left to Navigational Search Facets , by Greg Notess, Newsbreaks (May 13)
Greg Notess gives us a very orderly and clear description of the changes in Google search to the new left rail of search options. He boils it down to database (the Everything section), Search Tools, and Alternate Suggestions (which do not show yet on non-US Google versions.)
He also lists what was dropped.
"Search terms used to show up after the estimated number of results but are now gone. Single word queries would also link to a dictionary definition. That is gone. The advanced search page has lost the links at the bottom to "Topic-specific search engines from Google." The "View Customizations" message that previously alerted searchers to when the ranking had been personalized is no longer visible."
Add to this, that the limit-to-pages-in-canada has been moved to the left rail.
Posted by Gwen at May 13, 2010 03:31 PM