OT Excluding Google in search results?

On Nov 8, 9:22*pm, "Artemus" wrote:
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.

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Is your AV program locking it?
Art

Ahh, that could be! I'll ask,

Thanks (maybe)
George

On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:41:33 -0800, 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.

I've used Yahoo for several years' partly because of avoiding Google and
partly because, with 2 key strokes, I can drop into the unwanted box:
---------------------------
ebay "compare prices" compare amazon bizrate kelkoo dooyoo pricerunner
shopzilla nextag shoppingcentre freebytes medusa teloos "192.com" "shop.com"
betterdeals "ec21.com" "price comparison" pricemate "ciao.com" kellysearch
fastfinders choiceful shopwiki
-----------------------------------

whereas Google severely truncates that.
Recently Yahoo took to giving weird results, increasing the hits if UK was
invoked/exclusions added(!) and changed its images fortmat to be like
Googles but wouldn't go beyond the first page.
I changed to Google for images but, as has been said, my default of 20 hits
became 10 for any other format.

It's all very annoying as I've had my own urls for ages, with all of my
preferences in and no cookies required - now it's all broken!
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:55:02 -1000, m II wrote:

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

In Firefox (back-up only) I've Adblock and Ghostery; in Opera, Ghostery and
the various urlfilters, then a Hosts file of nearly 250k lines and /still/
the *******s get through!
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

George Herold wrote:
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 -
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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!
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 -

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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.


Oh, you can do that, too. Just file the requisite patent somewhere. I am
quite sure it'll sail through if worded correctly :-)

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

On 11/08/11 03:58, Acid Washed China Blue Jeans wrote:
In aweb.com, John wrote:

Does anybody know how to exclude "google.com" in Google search
results? Somehow I doubt it, but it needs doing here.

Have you tried adding the search term -google.com?

That should be -site:google.com

Clifford Heath

On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:13:48 -0800, Joerg wrote:

hp wrote:
On 11/7/2011 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/


Another advantage to using duckduck is that they claim they Do No
Tracking metrics on anyone searching, AND they claim they dont store
search histories.
Whereas with Google, marketing dynamics are Important to them so they
track and store Lots More Then Some Folks like.


I am not too concerned about tracking but lately Google has produced way
too many results that appear to be more commercially motivated. Maybe
that seach engine has run its course, at least for me. It was good while
it lasted but now I've pretty much abandoned it.

What I still use it for is maps. But I found that the print-out has
become mediocre. Can't see streets well anymore, the two lines don't
print right. If anyone knows a better map search engine that would be nice.

There is still MapQuest. Not as handy, but works ok.

?-)

josephkk wrote:
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:13:48 -0800, Joerg wrote:

hp wrote:
On 11/7/2011 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/

Another advantage to using duckduck is that they claim they Do No
Tracking metrics on anyone searching, AND they claim they dont store
search histories.
Whereas with Google, marketing dynamics are Important to them so they
track and store Lots More Then Some Folks like.

I am not too concerned about tracking but lately Google has produced way
too many results that appear to be more commercially motivated. Maybe
that seach engine has run its course, at least for me. It was good while
it lasted but now I've pretty much abandoned it.

What I still use it for is maps. But I found that the print-out has
become mediocre. Can't see streets well anymore, the two lines don't
print right. If anyone knows a better map search engine that would be nice.

There is still MapQuest. Not as handy, but works ok.


Tried that, and some others, too. None produces maps that are as
readable as they used to be. Too fuzzy, and that ain't my eyes :-)

So I resorted to a true and tried method. There's a pouch behind the
seats in my car, with good old maps in there. But I found I'll need new
maps for many areas. Hopefully one can still buy maps.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/