In 2 Years, Google Search Tools & Filters Have Shrunk From 9 To 2
Will Google drop the search tools filters in the near future? We are down to 2 filters from 9 filters two years ago.
Barry Schwartz on April 17, 2015 at 9:18 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google Search has a feature named Search Tools, the search tools can differ based on your query, but it ultimately lets you filter the search results and refine them to weed out results you do not want to see.
The number of search tools/filters available in 2013 were 9, today we seem to be down to only 2 search filters.
Google Operating System reports that Google has dropped the search filter for “visited pages” this way you can show pages you have not yet visited or not.
Here are screen shots he shared showing in 2013 9 different search filters:
Here is what we are at now, only two search filters:
I wonder when Google will drop the search tools completely from the search results?
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.