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.

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I've heard that they have indeed taken that away. They needed the "+" operator to send people to Google-Plus "brand" pages.