Question about Googling

Posted by: gbeer

Question about Googling - 23/11/2006 23:24

Is there any way to filter out pages belonging to storefronts? I'd like to find pages about a product but not have to wade through the thousands of sites selling the item.
Posted by: webroach

Re: Question about Googling - 23/11/2006 23:43

Generally I do something like "<what_I'm_searching_for> -checkout -cart"...
Posted by: gbeer

Re: Question about Googling - 24/11/2006 01:57

Works well! But Dang, why didn't I think of that.
Posted by: SuperQ

Re: Question about Googling - 24/11/2006 06:20

searching is supposed to be easy, but it can be an art..

The time my girlfriend was looking for Russian language audio streams to practice with was amusing.. her search query was "live Russian mpeg". She comes to me saying "I can't google, all I get is porn"
Posted by: Schido

Re: Question about Googling - 24/11/2006 07:33

The firefox plugin customizegoogle can do results filtering:

http://www.customizegoogle.com/
Posted by: g_attrill

Re: Question about Googling - 24/11/2006 10:01

Quote:
searching is supposed to be easy, but it can be an art..

The time my girlfriend was looking for Russian language audio streams to practice with was amusing.. her search query was "live Russian mpeg". She comes to me saying "I can't google, all I get is porn"


I was going to say try "franchise" on Yahoo Image search but they've fixed it now. Yesterday even with "SafeSearch" on it was returning image results from a specific porn site in the first 30+ places.
Posted by: furtive

Re: Question about Googling - 24/11/2006 14:59

Quote:
She comes to me saying "I can't google, all I get is porn"


Sounds like she was googling just fine to me
Posted by: hybrid8

Re: Question about Googling - 24/11/2006 16:35

[Michael Scott] "That's what she said" [/Michael Scott]
Posted by: gbeer

Re: Question about Googling - 25/11/2006 19:31

The Reg had an article on that. Did you notice that the pages were being served by a Fantasy Football League site. Seems to me it was either hacked (edit: meaning cracked), or the admin had some unusual content stashed.