Google adds recipe search function

[grasswire]

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/thestew/2011/02/google-adds-recipe-search.html?utm_source=streamsend&utm_medium=email&utm_content=13471019&utm_campaign=Food+News+Friday+February+25

-- Type in a search for something you want to make. Let's take "chicken and dumplings."

-- You'll get several million results, but in the rail on the left, "Recipes" will appear. Click on it.

-- Google will aggregate a set of common ingredients and let you include or exclude them to narrow your search. Don't want any bay leaves or rosemary in there? Just click them away.

-- You will also be able to filter by cooking time, in case you were looking to make them in a hurry, and by caloric content, in case you want to make a low cal version.

How big of a deal is this? About one percent of all searches performed on the search giant each day are for recipes. If you consider that they handle about a billion queries per day, that's 10 million recipe searches. Every day.

[cbayer]

1. Very, very cool. This is a function I will use frequently.

:hi:

[cbayer]

4. I used this tonight and loved it.

I was able to use things I had on hand to make a couple of excellent dishes. It worked flawlessly for me!

:toast:

[Coyote_Bandit]

2. That function needs improvement

Ask it to find a (vegetable based) gazpacho recipe without cucumbers. Even the avocado gazpacho listed cucumbers as an ingredient.

[trud]

3. a lot of google stuff

has a lousy user interface or is not quite up to snuff. It's like some employee gets an idea, hacks it together, and they toss it out into the world with no polishing and never fix it.

[NMDemDist2]

5. nice! thanks so much n/t