Google today introduced a set of features they call Search Options, which provides users with the ability to filter their search results in a number of ways. The options are accesible by clicking the “Show options …” link under the search box on the search results page. Results can be filter to only include videos, forums, or reviews. Google already provided the option to only show video results through Google Video, but the other two options are new. The reviews filter still needs work as includes pages that are not reviews, for example searching ‘iphone’ or ‘honda accord’ includes the official websites for these products.
Additional individual filter options are available for videos, forums, and reviews results and for viewing all results. When viewing all results, results can be filtered to be only from recently, the past 24 hours, the past week, or the past year. The results can also be modified to include images from the pages or with longer snippets from the pages.
Google wrote in a post on the Official Google Blog that they plan introduce more features to Search Options in the future.