Common search tricks now work like putting your query in quotes for exact match or adding a negative sign before terms to remove it from your results A graph showing the relative number of search results by month for the past several years for particular

You could create a feed that gives you stories with over 1000 Diggs about X and Y but never when keyword Z appears. Search is now fasterDiggs search has always gotten a lot of knocks, and improvements have been long awaited. Itll be interesting to see how users react to the new changes. Daniel Burka also notes that the new search will serve as a foundation for future projects. I wonder what that will entail.