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Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
15 years ago5,970 views

See they missed a few, what about *.googlepages.com ?
or Orkut?
or Lively ?
or Feedburner ?
or [insert various other Google Services here] ?

Kyle Wegner [PersonRank 1]

15 years ago #

Not that this has anything to do with Google, but I'd also like most of my Google searches to omit Wikipedia articles as well. Reason being that if I wanted a wikipedia article, I know exactly where to find it, and normally I don't trust the validity of Wikipedia anyway.

This is just personal preference though. I know many people are probably perfectly happy seeing wiki show up as #1 on every search.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

A more elegant solution is to use a custom search engine.

-site:gmail.com is unnecessary

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Ionut, how do you exclude URLs with a Google CSE?

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

http://www.google.com/support/customsearch/bin/answer.py?answer=70323&topic=11493

Freiddie [PersonRank 7]

15 years ago #

How did you implement Spamgoogle? And why?

Maybe Google should put a "-google" & "-wikipedia" setting in its preferences. Or better yet, let users create their own customized "default filter" in Google.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Thanks Ionut.

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

This Timo's work was covered widely here in Finland, pointing to this blog post too
http://www.startupbin.com/2008/08/11/google-minus-google/
Srry I had no time to post here :-(

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

The CSE option sounds like the best solution if you wanted a feature like Google Minus Google or whatever you wanted to exclude. This way you can control exactly what sites you want to exclude.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

v2 powered by cse: http://www.startupbin.com/google-google/

The site is useless because you can't find Google, Gmail, Blogger, Google Earth etc. The intention was to remove the user generated content hosted by Google, right?

Michael Martinez [PersonRank 5]

15 years ago #

He should put up a "google minus wikipedia" tool as well.

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