Has google removed the advanced search option or am I just confused?

[ritaxis]

Google changed the way the page is laid out and I can't find an advanced search button. Also, they changed my settings without asking me. Also, the whole thing seems wonky. When I changed my search terms, the page kept doing a thing where it bliked the new results page at me and then reset to the one before that. Four or five times before I could get what I wanted.

Okay, you people who try new things all the time. What search engines are you using? Something that allows me to exclude terms as well as add them is what I want. Also, I would like the "search within results" back, please, though that's been gone for a while.

Also, I hate this way that it tries to predict what I'm looking for and keeps ghosting results at me before I've even clicked the button or hit enter. Also, I hate the thing where it shows you a bunch of results and tells you there's a lot more of them and you have to beg it to show you the rest of them and I really hate the ghosting thing with the stupid grey placeholders: I want the old pages back. They were faster and easier to navigate.

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[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I use www.duckduckgo.com, which is a smallish independent search engine, and I like it tremendously.

The instant search is a bit of an undead feature - it needs to be switched of repeatedly - and I'm totally with you on hating the redesign and the 'improvements'. The worst thing is that google - EVEN when you use quotes - refuses to give you the term you searched for - sometimes, as in the case of a typo, that's a feature, but 99% of the time I meant what I typed, and I don't want unrelated things turning up in my search.

Churches in Autun. Town in France. Not 'autumn.' Etc etc.