Google greatly advances its web search by raising the word limit to 32 words. Previously, only up to 10 words were allowed. —Google Raises Word Limit to 32 (Google Blogoscoped)
The casual user probably won’t notice a difference. It was really hardly any trouble to cut out some of the words in a string that Google truncated, but the blog entry notes some situations where the added capacity could be useful.
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