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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday August 22 2017, @07:42PM (2 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday August 22 2017, @07:42PM (#557675) Journal

    "Yes, this sometimes still works, but it's now completely unpredictable because Google will drop random search terms all the time and show results that don't contain what you actually searched for."

    Yup, like if you search for arch linux something or other, it serves you answers for Windows. Ummmmm.... what?

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @12:50AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @12:50AM (#558679)

    If you really REALLY want to see a word/phrase in your Google results (rather that just be directed to a page that -another- page which -does- contain that links to), put that stuff in your search string TWICE.
    Use Verbatim search as well ( tbs=li:1& in your URL.

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    Now, I like to bookmark searches and sometimes use search results as links.
    Let's see you do this[1] with -your- search engine:
    http://www.google.com/search?num=30&q=intitle:Linux+intitle:Myths+-intitle:bsd+-lagoon+-backbox+-containers+-asp [google.com]

    num=30 -- Not just the standard 10 results per page (up to 100 allowed).
    intitle: and -intitle: are often useful.

    Other stuff that I didn't use that time, but regularly do:
    inurl: and -inurl:
    site: and -site:
    tbs=qdr:d& -- stuff from the last 24 hours; use h, w, m, or y for other timespans.

    [1] Extra points if it doesn't require allowing cookies or enabling JavaScript.

    ...and if you're scared shitless that Google might track you, then use a proxy ferchisake.
    N.B. archive.li (.is|.eu|.fo) will give you that for $0.

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    ...and as for point (4) by AthanasiusKircher, the internet is a lot bigger now than it was in 1998.
    If you can get exactly what you want on the first try, then bravo.
    I find that Boolean NOTs/added terms are often necessary.
    (These days, LATimes puts so much bullshit on its pages which is completely unrelated to the article, that that site is just becoming noise in searches.)

    There have been times when Google was better (e.g. WRT wildcards) but there's still nothing that comes close.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @05:40AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @05:40AM (#558739)

      ...and if you're scared shitless that Google might track you, then use a proxy ferchisake.

      That's still a tacit endorsement of their monstrous surveillance engine. Instead, you should use alternative search engines that have goals that don't involve conducting mass surveillance on the populace. Otherwise, you're part of the problem, even if just a bit.