Google minus Google v2 launched
Google minus Google, a search engine that lets you Search with Google without getting results from Google sites such as Knol, Blogger and YouTube has become an unexpected hit. After the launch on Monday thousands of people from all over the world have used the tool and it has been a topic in numerous blog posts and discussions on Friendfeed.
After the launch, several people have suggested that I should have used Google Custom Search (cse) to do the job. After some hard detective work I have swithed to CSE. Detective work - you ask? Yes, the reason for my initial solution to just use the basic Google search engine and remove the google sites in the query (using “-site:google.com etc”) was not technical. I needed to gather all the domains Google owns before I could use cse.** The list of Google domains in the exclude list of Google minus Google contains more than 2500 domain names. And it needed some work to compile. I’m sure I have missed something, though.
Enjoy the new and more useful version two of Google minus Google.
** For you techies out there: cse doesn’t allow wildcard usage in the top level domain (like google.*), but it can be used in the normal query.
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Date: August 14, 2008 | Time: 6:41 pm
[...] Sure, he uses it a lot, and probably couldn’t live without it, but he’s critical. Timo Paloheimo basically has three problems with the search giant. He was so kind to mail them to [...]
Date: August 14, 2008 | Time: 8:11 pm
Hi, i’m from Kolorex.blogspot, thanks for passing by my blog. The post that i wrote is about your google minus google web, and his features. Now i will write about the new features that you comment in this post.
Greetings from Argentina!
Date: August 18, 2008 | Time: 10:08 pm
[...] in Finland is great and yes in some way funny… I also found nicely ironic that on both the Startupbin blog and the Google CSE they’re making money from Google [...]
Date: August 18, 2008 | Time: 11:44 pm
Remember, as this note from Google points out, using more than
three domains with Google CSE might cause incomplete results.
See:
http://www.google.com/support/customsearch/bin/answer.py?answer=70392&topic=11502
cheers,
gary
Date: August 19, 2008 | Time: 1:48 am
I just love it. Hey Timo, I think you´re making some money via google adsense… great idea!
Date: August 19, 2008 | Time: 5:43 pm
gr8 web2.0 crap nobody needs …
Date: August 19, 2008 | Time: 8:26 pm
I think you missed something, adSense. In my analysis Google results are more adSense rich than live.com’s.
Date: August 20, 2008 | Time: 8:19 am
Interesting thing!
I am an editor in Russian online source about SEO (seonews.ru), we are going to write about your google minus google. Can you answer our ?
What was more important for you: to get unbiased results or to introduce smth new on the net?
R U planning to make v3 and v4? What changes can they have?
Have U received some response from Google?
Date: August 20, 2008 | Time: 8:26 am
Oh, and one more… can U say how many pages do U have in your index?
Date: August 21, 2008 | Time: 11:02 am
Good good tool. Helps get a better idea of how a sites doing. Wish - to be able see the total count pages for a given search term.
Date: August 21, 2008 | Time: 12:44 pm
Great idea!
Even my new website about has now a good position.
Super,
Mireille
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