OT Excluding Google in search results?

George Herold wrote:
On Nov 7, 4:10 pm, Joerg wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Does anybody know how to exclude "google.com" in Google search
results? Somehow I doubt it, but it needs doing here.
Use another search engine. After someone mentioned it here in the group
I am now using this one instead and it is IMHO much better, at least for
engineering stuff:

https://duckduckgo.com/html/

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

Google is really starting to get to me. It's now a 'secure' site,
htpps:// and asks all the time if I only want to see results from
secure sites.


Along with some other sites that you don't want to see?

Try other search engines, some are much better IMHO.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

Joerg wrote:

Try other search engines, some are much better IMHO.


Two that come to mind:

https://ixquick.com/

and

http://scroogle.org/

Which has:

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm



I quit using Google when the Adblocker plugin to my browser reported
over 800 hits by GoogleAnalytics scripts. They spy on everything you do.

mike

George Herold wrote:

On Nov 7, 4:10 pm, Joerg ? wrote:
? John Doe wrote:
? ? Does anybody know how to exclude "google.com" in Google search
? ? results? Somehow I doubt it, but it needs doing here.
?
? Use another search engine. After someone mentioned it here in the group
? I am now using this one instead and it is IMHO much better, at least for
? engineering stuff:
?
? https://duckduckgo.com/html/
?
? --
? Regards, Joerg
?
? http://www.analogconsultants.com/

Google is really starting to get to me. It's now a 'secure' site,
htpps:// and asks all the time if I only want to see results from
secure sites.


Check your search preferences for Google. I just did a search and
got:
http://www.google.com/search?q=top853+usb+universal+programmer+review&ie =utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&client=firefox-a
with no HTTPS links on the first page.


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You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.

On Nov 8, 12:41*pm, Joerg wrote:
George Herold wrote:
On Nov 7, 4:10 pm, Joerg wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Does anybody know how to exclude "google.com" in Google search
results? Somehow I doubt it, but it needs doing here.
Use another search engine. After someone mentioned it here in the group
I am now using this one instead and it is IMHO much better, at least for
engineering stuff:

https://duckduckgo.com/html/

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

Google is really starting to get to me. *It's now a 'secure' site,
htpps:// *and asks all the time if I only want to see results from
secure sites.

Along with some other sites that you don't want to see?

Try other search engines, some are much better IMHO.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/- Hide quoted text -

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Arghhh! I have google set as my home page. I was just trying to
remove it and make duckduck the home page. I can't get rid of
google. (It's like a bad dream!) I'm using IE as a browser. When I
go to the option to set home page to the default. (Some MSN thing.)
It still goes back to google!

George H.

On 08 Nov 2011 17:33:07 GMT, John Doe put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Now... Does anybody know how to put that in a URL so that it comes
up properly on Google's advanced search page?

I'm still using Google's very old Advanced Search format. I do this by
saving a local copy of the old AS page on my hard drive, and then
editing its URLs to point to Google.

You could do the same for the current AS page, but you would add
"-site:google.com" in place of the blank text field, as follows:

labelall these words:/label/tdtd class=inputdiv
class=inputwrapperinput class=box type=text value="-site:google.com"
name=as_q style="width:100%"

BTW... You might have trouble with the number of search results
100 if you do not know how to automatically reset that number,
since Google stubbornly changes it back to 10.

I allow Google to store my preferences (25 results) in a cookie.

- Franc Zabkar
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Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Franc Zabkar fzabkar iinternode.on.net wrote:

John Doe put

Now... Does anybody know how to put that in a URL so that it comes
up properly on Google's advanced search page?

I'm still using Google's very old Advanced Search format. I do this by
saving a local copy of the old AS page on my hard drive, and then
editing its URLs to point to Google.

You could do the same for the current AS page, but you would add
"-site:google.com" in place of the blank text field, as follows:

labelall these words:/label/tdtd class=inputdiv
class=inputwrapperinput class=box type=text value="-site:google.com"
name=as_q style="width:100%"

How is that supposed to be used? Is it part of a URL? Part of some
HTML code?
--









BTW... You might have trouble with the number of search results
100 if you do not know how to automatically reset that number,
since Google stubbornly changes it back to 10.

I allow Google to store my preferences (25 results) in a cookie.

- Franc Zabkar

George Herold wrote:
On Nov 8, 12:41 pm, Joerg wrote:
George Herold wrote:
On Nov 7, 4:10 pm, Joerg wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Does anybody know how to exclude "google.com" in Google search
results? Somehow I doubt it, but it needs doing here.
Use another search engine. After someone mentioned it here in the group
I am now using this one instead and it is IMHO much better, at least for
engineering stuff:
https://duckduckgo.com/html/
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Google is really starting to get to me. It's now a 'secure' site,
htpps:// and asks all the time if I only want to see results from
secure sites.
Along with some other sites that you don't want to see?

Try other search engines, some are much better IMHO.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Arghhh! I have google set as my home page. I was just trying to
remove it and make duckduck the home page. I can't get rid of
google. (It's like a bad dream!) I'm using IE as a browser. When I
go to the option to set home page to the default. (Some MSN thing.)
It still goes back to google!


Assuming it's not a Google "tool bar" or something, run a virus scanner
and a rootkit scanner. That sounds suspicious. Also, look at all the
plug-ins. Lots of them may have been installed without your consent.

I'd ditch IE and move to something like Firefox. Set privacy settings
and options rather high. If a web site won't properly display without
allowing dangerous scripts then it usually isn't worth looking at in the
first place.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

On 08 Nov 2011 20:52:33 GMT, John Doe put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Franc Zabkar fzabkar iinternode.on.net wrote:

John Doe put

Now... Does anybody know how to put that in a URL so that it comes
up properly on Google's advanced search page?

I'm still using Google's very old Advanced Search format. I do this by
saving a local copy of the old AS page on my hard drive, and then
editing its URLs to point to Google.

You could do the same for the current AS page, but you would add
"-site:google.com" in place of the blank text field, as follows:

labelall these words:/label/tdtd class=inputdiv
class=inputwrapperinput class=box type=text value="-site:google.com"
name=as_q style="width:100%"

How is that supposed to be used? Is it part of a URL? Part of some
HTML code?

Save the Advanced Search HTML page on your hard drive. Then edit the
HTML code as shown. Create a bookmark that links to the file on your
HDD and use it in preference to the original page.

Here is my first attempt. Save it on your HDD and try it:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/tem...ced_Search.htm

I've partially edited Google's page, but I'm not good with HTML, so
hopefully someone could tidy it up for you.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Arghhh! I have google set as my home page. I was just trying to
remove it and make duckduck the home page. I can't get rid of
google. (It's like a bad dream!) I'm using IE as a browser. When I
go to the option to set home page to the default. (Some MSN thing.)
It still goes back to google!

George H.

======================

Is your AV program locking it?
Art

On Nov 8, 4:51*pm, Joerg wrote:
George Herold wrote:
On Nov 8, 12:41 pm, Joerg wrote:
George Herold wrote:
On Nov 7, 4:10 pm, Joerg wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Does anybody know how to exclude "google.com" in Google search
results? Somehow I doubt it, but it needs doing here.
Use another search engine. After someone mentioned it here in the group
I am now using this one instead and it is IMHO much better, at least for
engineering stuff:
https://duckduckgo.com/html/
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Google is really starting to get to me. *It's now a 'secure' site,
htpps:// *and asks all the time if I only want to see results from
secure sites.
Along with some other sites that you don't want to see?

Try other search engines, some are much better IMHO.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/-Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Arghhh! *I have google set as my home page. *I was just trying to
remove it and make duckduck the home page. *I can't get rid of
google. *(It's like a bad dream!) *I'm using IE as a browser. *When I
go to the option to set home page to the default. *(Some MSN thing.)
It still goes back to google!

Assuming it's not a Google "tool bar" or something, run a virus scanner
and a rootkit scanner. That sounds suspicious. Also, look at all the
plug-ins. Lots of them may have been installed without your consent.

I'd ditch IE and move to something like Firefox. Set privacy settings
and options rather high. If a web site won't properly display without
allowing dangerous scripts then it usually isn't worth looking at in the
first place.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Thanks Joerg, It looks like it's something wrong with IE. The
secretary can't change her home page either. I'm willing to bet that
the microsoft solution will involve upgrading some old piece of
software. Why do computer issues seem like such a time sink? I learn
something and five years later it's different. No ones changing the
charge of an electron.

George H.