Google's New Recipe Search

Google's New Recipe Search

Finding recipes more efficiently

Google has created a new set of filters, designed to help people find and even modify recipes. They're calling the suite of search filters Google Recipe View. Here's how it works:

 

  1. Perform a Google search related to a recipe. (If you're willing to live dangerously, I suggest searching for chocolate sea-salt caramels. )
  2. Once you have the results, look at the sidebar on the far left of Google's result page; there's a new Recipe View filter that will filter out quite successfully the non-recipe search results.
  3. You can then filter by calories, or ingredients. For instance, if you've chosen to live dangerously, you'll see listed on the side bar the following ingredients: corn syrup, honey, vanilla extract, butter, sugar, with Yes or No check boxes beside each; checking a box filters the search results immediately.
  4. Other search filters include filtering by calories, or by cooking time. If you click the More Search Options link on the left, you can filter recipes based on when they were posted, and various other criteria.
  5. You can even have Google modify the ingredient amounts of the recipe to accomodate a greater or a reduced number of servings, with some recipes.

You can read more about Google's new Recipe View here. There's a complete description of how Google's new metadata works, for people who post their own recipes and would like to support these new features.

These new filter tools are not just fun; they make recipe searching—and meal plaining more efficient.

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