Google becoming useless?
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Some clever nimrods have figured out a way to hack google search results (esp. programming related results) and then serve up some useless landing page with various "hacky" results. Now everytime I search I get 5000 results for tuturtinular and various other sites obviously generated by the same stupid company. On top of that SO had issues with their indexing which caused them to drop off the results completely (seems to be fixed now). I wish there was a way to build up a whitelist of sites to ignore while searching on google?
Todd Smith
Todd Smith wrote:
I wish there was a way to build up a whitelist of sites to ignore while searching on google?
Should that not be a blacklist? Blacklist are bad, and whitelist are good
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Some clever nimrods have figured out a way to hack google search results (esp. programming related results) and then serve up some useless landing page with various "hacky" results. Now everytime I search I get 5000 results for tuturtinular and various other sites obviously generated by the same stupid company. On top of that SO had issues with their indexing which caused them to drop off the results completely (seems to be fixed now). I wish there was a way to build up a whitelist of sites to ignore while searching on google?
Todd Smith
It might be a PITA to use for multiple sites, but you can always search like this:
what I want -site:com
This will exclude all .com sites, for example. Google "search modifiers google" for more info. Good luck! Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Some clever nimrods have figured out a way to hack google search results (esp. programming related results) and then serve up some useless landing page with various "hacky" results. Now everytime I search I get 5000 results for tuturtinular and various other sites obviously generated by the same stupid company. On top of that SO had issues with their indexing which caused them to drop off the results completely (seems to be fixed now). I wish there was a way to build up a whitelist of sites to ignore while searching on google?
Todd Smith
I do not recall ever seeing this. However I have pretty much only been searching for Qt, ITK, VTK, SQLITE and gentoo in the last few months..
John
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Some clever nimrods have figured out a way to hack google search results (esp. programming related results) and then serve up some useless landing page with various "hacky" results. Now everytime I search I get 5000 results for tuturtinular and various other sites obviously generated by the same stupid company. On top of that SO had issues with their indexing which caused them to drop off the results completely (seems to be fixed now). I wish there was a way to build up a whitelist of sites to ignore while searching on google?
Todd Smith
I just tend to ignore search results that have exactly the same title as my search term, especially when the term I used makes no sense as it is.
My current favourite phrase: I've seen better!
-SK Genius
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Some clever nimrods have figured out a way to hack google search results (esp. programming related results) and then serve up some useless landing page with various "hacky" results. Now everytime I search I get 5000 results for tuturtinular and various other sites obviously generated by the same stupid company. On top of that SO had issues with their indexing which caused them to drop off the results completely (seems to be fixed now). I wish there was a way to build up a whitelist of sites to ignore while searching on google?
Todd Smith
Becoming? :confused:
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I just tend to ignore search results that have exactly the same title as my search term, especially when the term I used makes no sense as it is.
My current favourite phrase: I've seen better!
-SK Genius
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
Some Crazy Elephant Search Term -"Some Crazy Elephant Search Term"
So is it Google horror? like Coding horror :)
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It might be a PITA to use for multiple sites, but you can always search like this:
what I want -site:com
This will exclude all .com sites, for example. Google "search modifiers google" for more info. Good luck! Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
Or
what I want -price
If you want the manufacturer's site of a product, rather than online stores.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
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Or
what I want -price
If you want the manufacturer's site of a product, rather than online stores.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
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Doesn't work if the manufacturer has a store of its own or lists an MRSP. :doh:
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
Still works most of the time, because most manufacturers avoid to put price information on the same page as product information.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
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Some clever nimrods have figured out a way to hack google search results (esp. programming related results) and then serve up some useless landing page with various "hacky" results. Now everytime I search I get 5000 results for tuturtinular and various other sites obviously generated by the same stupid company. On top of that SO had issues with their indexing which caused them to drop off the results completely (seems to be fixed now). I wish there was a way to build up a whitelist of sites to ignore while searching on google?
Todd Smith
It is just becomming more and more useless every day for this exact reason (which has been getting progressively worse for about the last 5-6 years)... More people use it so they learn to exploit it...And the company is now focusing thier efforts on other areas/markets so they can't be hassled to fix it.