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I hate to break it to you but Google hasn't been the company you seem to think they still are for a very long time.

• squarefoot 6y ago
  To me it was the day they removed the discussion filter functionality from their search engine. It was a purely advertising driven move: from now on people searching for a keyword couldn't anymore filter for other people talking about that thing but rather they would be inundated by shops selling that thing or shills promoting it. That plot however was probably much older, since the obvious wonderful alternative, Dejanews, wasn't available anymore for having been already bought by Google many years before.
  • bosswipe 6y ago
    I've found that a lot of people are adding "reddit" to their searches as a poor-man's discussion filter. It sort of works but it's also sad in how it's another reflection of how centralized and concentrated the web has become.
    • thebean11 6y ago
      That's certainly what I'm doing, and I'm hoping that there will be some alternative by the time reddit becomes useless (it seems to be moving in that direction, although not too quickly for the smaller niche subreddits).
    • argiopetech 6y ago
      I've also had good success with "forum".
  • efreak 6y ago
    `-cart -checkout -"check out" -clearance -discount -sales -PayPal -shipping` is what I use on occasion to remove e-commerce sites from the results.