Finnish blogger amputates Google from Google Getting a head start on the world's antitrust regulators, an astute Finn is offering a bastardized version of Google's search engine that ignores sites served up by Google itself. Inspired by a recent New York Times piece that questioned whether the Mountain View search monopoly is morphing into a media company - which it is …
It's completely useless to use Google to look for information about consumer electronic equipment. You get two hundred scraper sites and an eBay link.
I would not be at all surprised if we learned that Google was providing most of the funding for Wikipedia. Wikipedia frees Google from the need to improve its results! If you use Wikipedia for the general-knowledge lookup, then Google doesn't have to do any work to filter out scrapers from its search results...
Sorry Hipster, I refuse to use Crapfox, have been an Opera user for more years than I care to remember, occasionally try the oppo, but always come back.
You can always use the host file authored by Mike Skallas to block stuff, (http://everythingisnt.com/hosts) but then how would we be able to read El Reg FOR FREE (sorry about the American caps lock lapse) without advertisers :-)
Paris, as she loves mushy peas :-)
"... would be to be able to suppress results from known link farms and, optionally, shopping sites."
Look up ---^ a few posts. It looks like www.givemebackmygoogle.com does just this. And, since it just goes to google and the syntax for blocking sites is visible, it looks easy to just add more sites and make your own custom block list.
I use google for finding consumer electronic items at least once a week and find it astonishingly easy to avoid the price scraper and ebay results. A one-off, 5 minute investment of your time to target your filters and you'll be done! Or there is givemebackmygoogle, but you have less control over the filtering there.
Ah a fix for the old Google problem then ...
"With all due respect John, I am head of IT, and I have it on good authority
If you type Google into Google you cannn break the internet"
It's not a laughing matter, you can break the internet.
Legendary ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKAq_FNHh0k
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