Late january Google removed some of his search filters that you could use to refine your search results, based on specific categories of content, like places, patents or discussions. They removed a number of useful filters within the menu, but that doesn’t mean Google shut down these functions completely. These filters can still be used by adding specific parameters to Google’s URLs. Besides that you can also use direct URLs, as listed below, to start with specific filtering before even searching Google’s databases:
Who knows how long they’ll be around for, but here’s five alternatives in case anyone is looking for different ways to find discussions! http://bit.ly/1oHlAqE