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Clicking Search Options at the top of results pages reveals a number of filters to apply to results. You can, for instance, limit results to a certain time frame or restrict them to a certain type of content.

Alternatively you can choose to display images as well as the standard text snippet from each page found by the search; or tell Google to display a

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longer snippet.

There is also the new Wonder Wheel feature, that provides a graphic representation of related searches. As you can see, MacUser is closely related both to Dennis Publishing as well as other Dennis publications.

Google is also introducing what it calls “rich snippets”, which essentially involves squeezing more information into the preview text that appears under search results.

These enhanced snippets could include details such as the rating of a laptop review, or the laptops’s price and specs.

Google is asking web publishers to place RDFa markup and Microformats tags in their HTML so that it can extract this rich data for search results.

This follows changes made earlier this year, when Google introduced longer snippets to provide better information for search queries containing several terms.