More Google Losses

Yesterday I posted about the recent changes at Google including a few lost (or at least temporarily missing) features. One more change that I have noticed is on the advanced search page. I expect that many advanced searchers will use the left hand search tools to limit and refine their searches, especially since it contains options not available on the advanced search page. What surprised me is what is now missing on the advanced search page.

Down at the bottom of the advanced search page, up until the redesign launched, Google had a list of "Topic-specific search engines from Google" including specialized searches for government, Microsoft, and Linux.

Here are the old choices and links. All but the "Universities" search (one of their earliest) still work. While the ones in the first are linked elsewhere (and Code is not new -- it launched in 2006), the others do not appear to be linked from Google elsewhere.

Google Book Search Google Code Search New! Google Scholar Google News archive search

Apple Macintosh BSD Unix Linux Microsoft

U.S. Government Universities

And a screenshot of the bottom of the old advanced search page: