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Comments on: Finnish blogger amputates Google from Google

@ Now all we need is Google minus Wikipedia. ® 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 18:57 GMT

Coat

Nope, Google minus the shite "price comparison" scraping sites is what I'd like.

Bye

And... 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 18:58 GMT

Google Shopping minus Ebay.

I'd call it Google minus the Goo he said with gle(e) 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 19:05 GMT

Coat

Damn I'm funny .

@Neil Greatorex 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 19:11 GMT

Happy

Good grief!!! You read my mind!!! You must be a psychic!!!

Seriously, though, I too would like to have that kind search site. Add to its feature to completely exclude store sites (if that's even possible).

Not to forget ... 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 19:19 GMT

Alien

Google minus Scientology ...

GiveMeBackMyGoogle 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 19:26 GMT

Happy

@AC and Neil Greatorex

You want www.givemebackmygoogle.com - "Google without the annoying affiliate links"

Neil: I agree 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 20:02 GMT

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...

CustomizeGoogle Firefox extension 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 20:14 GMT

Happy

You filter out as many domains as you like with the above add-on.

Google minus Shoppinf Sites 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 21:02 GMT

Thumb Up

Now that would be cool.

@ Hipster Dufus 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 21:17 GMT

Paris Hilton

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 :-)

Even more useful 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 21:25 GMT

Thumb Up

... would be to be able to suppress results from known link farms and, optionally, shopping sites.

Look up --^ 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 21:55 GMT

"... 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.

Cool 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 22:59 GMT

Now all he has to do is filter out wikipedia mumbo jumbo and stop serving links in an iframe and it might be good.

What we really need is... 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 23:00 GMT

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Google minus experts-exchange

@jimbobmcgee 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 00:18 GMT

item -ebay does the trick

Conflict 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 07:30 GMT

"The ads on the Google minus Google are tied to my AdSense account and the usage of their logo was against the AdSense terms of service."

So, we remove one conflict of interest and replace it with another. Smashing!

@Mike Powers 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 08:20 GMT

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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.

RE: Google minus experts-exchange 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 08:20 GMT

Alert

Are you mad!

EE is sooo useful - even if you are not registered the google results page has the answers for free at the bottom... shhh dont tell them!

Google minus Google 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 08:22 GMT

Ads by Google.

Nice.

@Jims 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 08:48 GMT

Google minus Experts Exchange:

http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=001127977917864091225:atbt0vpbssa

Objoke -- why not call it Googless? 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 09:06 GMT

Joke

You know... googless... like legless. Geddit?

Never mind.

Customize Google FF plugin 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 11:38 GMT

Another vote from me- fantastic

Ah this solves one problem! IT Crowd... 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 13:04 GMT

Joke

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

did you know 

Posted Friday 29th August 2008 10:02 GMT

Stop

if you type google into google-minus-google you can actually break the internet!

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