An ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has been tracking the various advanced search result pages from Google since the Google redesign.

Back in the day, google.com/ie would let you set a special URL parameter to show 100 results on the page. Google killed it and it gave Scroogle a set back for a little while.

But webmasters and Scroogle found an alternative URL to get the same results. The alternative URL was adding on &output=ie to the Google URL.

Today, that URL also no longer works for many. It does work for me, but I guess it is a matter of time until the URL goes away. Try it yourself.

As Tedster said at WebmasterWorld, “Curses, foiled again! Time to get a script written, I guess.” But as I said, Scroogle is out of business also. They wrote a message on their site saying:

What will happen is unclear. Google never particularly went after Scroogle, but they won’t go out of their way to let a scrapper site do their work. Time will tell.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld& Google Blogoscoped Forums.