Remember when G+ search was useful? It again is.
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/04
The big G+ news this week was that they brought back search, years after they made the G+ search useless, so jokes like at [WayBack] Ikey Doherty – Google+ “Remember when G+ search was useful?” finally can be left behind us.
Now that they finally made it useful again, I’m happy with it.
A few example searches to get the hang of the URL syntax:
- My own posts about WMC, most recent first: https://plus.google.com/s/WMC+%22Jeroen%20Wiert%20Pluimers%22/recent
- My own posts about WMC, top posts first: https://plus.google.com/s/WMC+%22Jeroen%20Wiert%20Pluimers%22/top
- Your posts about WMC, top posts first: https://plus.google.com/s/WMC/posts?order=top&scope=you
- Your posts about WMC, most recent first: https://plus.google.com/s/WMC/posts?order=recent&scope=you
- Everyones posts about WMC, most recent first: https://plus.google.com/s/WMC/posts?order=recent&scope=all
- Followed peoples postsabout WMC, most recent first: https://plus.google.com/s/WMC/posts?order=recent&scope=followed
News sources:
- [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+: I would not have thought it possible, but after just several years of user feedback Google actually unfucked the search. It’s almost as awesome as their adblocker – absolutely essential, but too little, too late.
- [WayBack] Jaana Nyström – Google+: WOOHOOOOOO! The Classic Google+ style search is back! Now one can again search their own posts, even hashtag search works better. Top post vs. latest function, too. ❤️
- [WayBack] Roderick Gadellaa – Google+: #thatsaplus
- [WayBack] Anna Kiyantseva – Google+: …we’re rolling out a bevy of improvements to G+ Search — most visibly, you’ll find that typing into the search bar no longer interrupts your search attempts by taking you to Explore. That means that your results get to you that much faster!That’s not all…
- A new, tabbed interface will make it easier for you to find the exact type of content that you’re looking for.
- In the posts tab, you can filter based on the post author. Finally, you can look back at your many years of G+ posting without being distracted by everyone else’s Neko Atsume updates!
- Popular Topics are now displayed in the search bar dropdown.As always, let us know what you think and we hope you enjoy!
–jeroen
Joke source: [WayBack] Ikey Doherty – Google+ “Remember when G+ search was useful?”
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