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

[carbonel]

It may not show up on the page, but the link still works: http://www.google.com/advanced_search.

I don't know if this is the deal with the grey placeholders, but every so often Google turns on Google Instant, which I hate with a burning passion. (It might be great on a super-fast computer with a super-fast connect; I have neither.) The fix is to click on the icon in the upper-right corner that looks like a gear. That brings up the Google setup page. If you scroll down on that, you'll see an option to turn off Google Instant. As green_knight says, it keeps rising from the dead, but I just keep slaying it. You can tell if Google Instant is on because you'll see a grey "X" in the right side of the search box.