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Location: sheffield, United Kingdom
Does anyone know how, when searching the net for information, I can exclude companies selling stuff from the search results; or, is there a (free) search engine that has this feature?
While I've got no problem with companies selling stuff, obviously, when searching for info I'd prefer not to get them turning up in my search results.
I don't see why this shouldn't be possible, for example, most stuff from sites ending with 'co.uk' are likely to be selling stuff, so a search engine that can recognise things like that should be able to filter the results.
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Geek-enviro-hippy priest
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Location: Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Using google you have a few options:
you can use '-' to exclude something so:
poi -fire
would bring all the sites with the word poi and not fire
You can also use it before 'inurl' so:
poi -fire -inurl:co.uk
will bring up the same as before without and co.uk domains.
you can also use | as a either/or statment so
poi|staff -fire -inurl:co.uk
would pull up pages with either poi or staff without fire and no .co.uk domains.
Note the last of spaces etc after the | - and inurl: You can also use + to include and quotation marks to search for an exact string.
Hope this helps
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Location: Staines, United Kingdom
Youl could also go to a shop
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Geek-enviro-hippy priest
1,858 posts
Location: Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom
You're right, that _is_ THE best way to "exclude companies selling stuff".....
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Geek-enviro-hippy priest
1,858 posts
Location: Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Just rememberd, I bookmarked this a while ago and I've never used it:
https://mindset.research.yahoo.com/
Let me know what you think...
There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
406 posts
Location: Oxford, UK
https://www.customizegoogle.com/
A firefox plugin that allows you to exclude sites from your searches, among many other useful things. Obviously it can't just exclude commercial sites but it may help a bit.
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veteran
1,228 posts
Location: on the wrong planet, United Kingdom
Add things like -checkout -product -basket -delivery to the search.
Gets rid of a few sites you may want, but gets rid of nearly all the commercial sites too.
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The Ministry of Manipulation
2,523 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
What puresock said
Customize google extension for firefox.
its wicked
Turn off the 2 paid adverts you get for the first 2 results
turn off the padverts adverts on the left
and if you wish (which I do) remove any results from amazon and ebay
if i want ebay, I'll go to ebay
Its like google used to be
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