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I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filter/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filt... for filtering Google. Can
by serveboy 9y ago
I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filter/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filt... for filtering Google. Can't live without it. It would be interesting to have a Github repo with some precompiled filters based on certain business domains.
But for me at least, a couple of rules are enough to solve 99% of the problems.
- vanderZwan 9y agoI'm using DuckDuckGo and I just realised I should install something similar, thanks! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ddg-hide-unwanted-results/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ddg-hide-unwa... EDIT: You can actually achieve something similar with bookmarks, using keywords and '%s' The idea is: take a link to a search query string of a search engine, and replace the query part with '%s'. For example, take the following search query on DuckDuckGo: cute hedgehog -site:www.pinterest.com -site:boredpanda.com -site:amazon.com -site:etsy.com This results in: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cute+hedgehog+-site%3Awww.pinterest.com+-site%3Aboredpanda.com+-site%3Aamazon.com+-site%3Aetsy.com&t=ffab&ia=web Bookmark that, and replace the "cute+hedgehog" part with "%s", then edit the bookmark and add (for example) "ddg" to the "keyword" section, then typing in: ddg cute hedgehog ... will send you to: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cute+hedgehog+-site%3Awww.pinterest.com+-site%3Aboredpanda.com+-site%3Aamazon.com+-site%3Aetsy.com&t=ffab&ia=web
- serveboy 9y agoNifty trick! Is there a limit to the number of site: filters? Look for an extension that highlights the good results. I find that more valuable than filtering the bad results.
- vanderZwan 9y agoI just tried, DDG seems to be a bit unreliable, especially when youtube is involved: https://twitter.com/JobvdZwan/status/950331823229472769 https://twitter.com/JobvdZwan/status/950331823229472769 As for Google, the limit to a query is 32 words, apparently: https://imgur.com/a/XW1Qa https://imgur.com/a/XW1Qa ... however, it also supports inurl:<query>, so you can easily filter out sites with manu subdomains (say, pinterest.com, pinterest.co.uk, etcetera), just by using -inurl:pinterest
- aiCeivi9 9y agoDoes it fetch next result page to fill removed items?
- serveboy 9y agoI'm not sure. Results I want are usually on the first page though, almost always highlighted in green. The "*.edu" highlight is particularly useful.