01.22.2005 22:41

Google now does 32 word searches, was 10 maximum


From Zmarties:
Google appears to have silently raised the number of words it permits in its search query from 10 to 32 words.

This is great news - whilst the casual user wont notice the difference, the power searcher was often hitting this limit. Now it's possible to do much more targeted searches, using the - operator much more to exclude words you know are of no interest. There's a whole bunch of other applications that benefit from raising the limit, and plenty of partial workarounds that are now redundant - a Google search shows many of them.

The support for the new limit is somewhat patchy :-
Found through threadwatch linking to Google Blogscoped. Zmarties credited researchbuzz for the find.