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Thread #135978   Message #3102679
Posted By: JohnInKansas
25-Feb-11 - 12:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: New Recipe Technology
Subject: BS: New Recipe Technology
While we've had numerous threads discussing how to cook stuff, we've mostly explored each other's favorites.

Google has now added a "Recipe" button on search results pages that I probably wouldn't have explored without the "news clip" pointing it out:

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Google Recipe View: Recipe surfers' new best friend


By Wilson Rothman

If you're an avid but impatient cook like me, you probably browse multiple recipes online, and then mash 'em up when you're in the kitchen. Consulting multiple recipes is almost always beneficial, but it can be annoying. Google's new Recipe View helps in that department.
It's exactly what you think it is: A search tab that restricts results to recipes.

Type any dish or ingredient, then tap the "Recipes" tab on the lefthand side. Once you're in, there are more controls. You can limit the ingredients you want to use, the cook time, even the calorie count of the dish itself.

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For a "quick view" there's an embedded brief video at the link that may (or not) be helpful.

The "filter" to eliminate search results that are not recipes seems to work pretty well, but if Google doesnt' recognize your search term as "food" you may have to click "more" to get to that particular choice in the box in the left margin. (It didn't recognize "possum" as food but did offer some tasty(?) recipes after I expanded the list of categories.)

Additonal thought: My need for recipes doesn't go much past three steps, (1. Kill it, 2. Burn it, 3. Serve it) but just noting the presence of the several other "filter choices" may be of some help to Googlers on other subjects as well.

Comments?

John