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12/23/2006 01:43:50 PM · #1 |
Does anyone know of a search engine where you can search for information on something without hitting hundreds of product shopping sites?
I love Google search but it's getting ridiculous the number of product "price" and store hits you get when searching for information ABOUT a device.
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12/23/2006 04:48:58 PM · #2 |
So the "implied" answer is no?
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12/23/2006 05:15:21 PM · #3 |
Try using something like:
Nikon review -buy
That seems to have cut about 700,000 hits by adding the -buy. |
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12/23/2006 05:57:55 PM · #4 |
| I know what you mean....I'm still trying to find the books on Amazon.com for rcmannjr/banmorn...Well there are some apparently on Robert Mann...but not me...the pinhole photographer in Paris....Oh well...some day. |
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12/23/2006 11:20:18 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by aliqui:
Try using something like:
Nikon review -buy
That seems to have cut about 700,000 hits by adding the -buy. |
Thanks--I hadn't thought about using negation to eliminate key selling words.
But I'd still like to see a search site that only does "information" and not "infomercials"!
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12/23/2006 11:20:38 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by banmorn:
I know what you mean....I'm still trying to find the books on Amazon.com for rcmannjr/banmorn...Well there are some apparently on Robert Mann...but not me...the pinhole photographer in Paris....Oh well...some day. |
I'm confident someday there will be!
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12/23/2006 11:27:03 PM · #7 |
| I use //www.ask.com alot and google |
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12/24/2006 05:03:24 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Originally posted by aliqui:
Try using something like:
Nikon review -buy
That seems to have cut about 700,000 hits by adding the -buy. |
Thanks--I hadn't thought about using negation to eliminate key selling words. |
I thought about using that too, but didn't suggest it because it also eliminates a lot of good links. The above example where the search is for a review can be tricky. When you eliminate "buy" and the reviewer says: "No memorycard is included, you have to buy that seperately."
You could miss that perfectly good review.
Same goes for -shop
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12/24/2006 10:14:16 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Originally posted by aliqui:
Try using something like:
Nikon review -buy
That seems to have cut about 700,000 hits by adding the -buy. |
Thanks--I hadn't thought about using negation to eliminate key selling words. |
I thought about using that too, but didn't suggest it because it also eliminates a lot of good links. The above example where the search is for a review can be tricky. When you eliminate "buy" and the reviewer says: "No memorycard is included, you have to buy that seperately."
You could miss that perfectly good review.
Same goes for -shop |
Exclude the word cart or maybe shipping?
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12/24/2006 10:22:49 AM · #10 |
| My search bookmarks automatically append "-amazon -google -search -ebay" to the query. I find my results to be much cleaner that way. |
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12/24/2006 10:32:10 AM · #11 |
alltheweb.com
Got pushed aside by google and google PR. They've had to do one thing or another to stay alive, I suppose. Maybe less people sign up for them. In any case, I always go there if I'm looking to compose an "advanced search" and I don't feel like helping people take over the world.
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